Unit 4 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. Forces that tend to divide a country- such as internal religious, ethnic, or ideological differences.
  2. 2. Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.
  3. 3. Nation that stretches across borders and across states
  4. 7. A subdivision of human geography focused on the nature and implications of the evolving spatial organization of political governance and formal political practice on the Earth's surface.
  5. 9. A politically organized area that has a permanent population, a government, and is recognized by others
  6. 12. government based on the principle that the people sovereignty and a say over what happens within the state.
  7. 14. A state that encompasses a very small land area.
  8. 19. a country's or more local community's sense of property and attachment toward its territory
  9. 22. a large aggregate of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting an area
  10. 23. a sovereign state whose citizens are relatively common factors such as language or descent.
  11. 24. States with more than one nation within its borders
  12. 25. A segment of land that is apart from the mainland of its country (other examples: Hawaii and Alaska)
  13. 26. a former boundary line that is still discernible and marked by some cultural landscape features
  14. 27. centralized government and administration that exercises power equally over all parts of the state
  15. 28. can be linguistically and culturally diverse
  16. 30. Political boundaries that are defined and delimited by straight lines.
Down
  1. 1. Forces that tend to unify a country- such as commitment to a national culture, shared ideologies, and a common faith
  2. 4. Countries in Eastern Europe that were independent but became politically and economically influenced/dependent on the Soviet Union
  3. 5. Any small and relatively homogenous group or region surrounded by another larger and different group or region
  4. 6. A condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries.
  5. 8. Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states.
  6. 10. A country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people
  7. 11. Political boundaries that correspond with prominent natural features such as mountain ranges or rivers.
  8. 13. rule by an autonomous power over a subordinate and alien people and place.
  9. 15. A nationality that is not represented by a state.
  10. 16. a state that completely surrounds another one
  11. 17. shares power between the federal government and the local governments
  12. 18. an otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension
  13. 20. A state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea.
  14. 21. the transfer of powers and responsibilities from the federal government to the states
  15. 29. A state with a long, narrow shape.