Geo Unit 5: Week 1 Key Terms

What term is defined as the largest political unit and formal term for a country?

Which of the following is NOT a criteria to become a State?

What term is defined as a group of people who have these certain things in common?

1. Share a common cultural heritage

2. Have beliefs and values that help unify them

3. Claim a particular space based on tradition as their homeland

4. Desire to establish their own state or express self-determination in another way.

What term is defined as a singular nation of people who fulfill the qualifications of a state?

Examples: Iceland and Japan

What term is a defined area within a state that has a high degree of self-governance and freedom from its parent state?

Example: Navajo Nation in the U.S.

What term is defined as cultural groups that have no independent political entity?

Examples: Palestinians and the Kurds

What type of boundary is drawn by outside powers?

What type of boundary is drawn to accommodate religious, ethnic, linguistic, or economic differences?

What type of boundary no longer exists, but there is evidence of its existence on the landscape?

What term is defined as a region that suffers instability because it is located between two very different regions?