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