Unit 4: Political Patterns & Processes
Human Geo · Unit 4 · Paper 1

Political Patterns & Processes unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

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Each paper is built from this unit’s 16 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 4, Paper 1” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.
Suggested time 34 min 31 points0/17 attempted
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Shatterbelt

2

Boundary types

3

Balkanization

4

Colonial legacy of boundaries

5

Gerrymandering

6

Sovereignty

7

Enclave and exclave

8

Antecedent, subsequent, superimposed and relict boundaries

9

State, nation and nation-state

10

Unitary vs federal states

11

Choke point

12

Devolution

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Territoriality

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Supranational organization

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Centripetal and centrifugal forces

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Stateless nation and multinational state

3 pts

Free response

7 pts

This course has no free-response prompt tagged to this unit, so one from elsewhere in the course is used. It is still worth writing — the skill transfers.

Agricultural land use reflects both economic models and technological change. (A) Identify the type of agriculture Von Thünen’s model places in the ring nearest the market. (B) Explain why that activity locates nearest the market in the model. (C) Explain how refrigerated transport has weakened the predictive power of Von Thünen’s model. (D) Define the Green Revolution. (E) Using a specific region, explain one positive economic effect of the Green Revolution. (F) Explain one environmental cost associated with Green Revolution agriculture. (G) Explain how commercial agriculture in the core differs from subsistence agriculture in the periphery with respect to inputs and market orientation.