AP Human Geography: Chapter 8: Political Geography

(adj.) Moving or tending to move away from a center.

(adj.) Moving or tending to move toward a center.

(n.) The transfer or delegation of power to a lower level, especially by central government to local or regional administration.

(v.) Dividing unfairly to one’s advantage.

The world can be ultimately ruled by land-based power, not sea power.

(n.) A group of people considered as one based on a sense of shared culture and history, and who seek some degree of self government.

(n.) A politically organized area in which a nation and state occupy the same space.

(n.) Supreme power or authority.

(n.) A politically organized territory with a permanent population, a defined territory, and a government.

1. The world economy has one market and a global division of labor. 2. Although the world has multiple states, almost everything takes place within the context of the world economy. 3. The world economy has a three-tier structure.

False. Sovereignty was expressed over territory rather than people.

False. A body of people decide whether they are a nation or not by considering themselves as one/united or not.

True. The definition of a nation-state clearly proves that a nation and state occupy the same space or boundaries.

False. Centrifugal forces work to divide a nation-state.

True. The state in Nigeria's Muslim north have legal systems based on traditional Islamic laws.