Unit 4: Political Patterns & Processes
Human Geo · Unit 4 · Paper 2

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 2” 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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Boundary types

2

Enclave and exclave

3

Choke point

4

Sovereignty

5

Gerrymandering

6

Territoriality

7

Stateless nation and multinational state

8

State, nation and nation-state

9

Colonial legacy of boundaries

10

Centripetal and centrifugal forces

11

Unitary vs federal states

12

Balkanization

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Antecedent, subsequent, superimposed and relict boundaries

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Devolution

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Supranational organization

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Shatterbelt

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.

Urban models describe internal city structure, but cities also change through political and economic processes. (A) Identify the geographer or geographers associated with the multiple nuclei model. (B) Describe one way the multiple nuclei model differs from the concentric zone model. (C) Explain one reason the Latin American city model places low-income squatter settlements at the urban periphery while North American models place low-income housing near the center. (D) Define gentrification. (E) Explain one benefit and one cost of gentrification for existing residents of a neighborhood. (F) Explain how an urban growth boundary is intended to reduce sprawl. (G) Explain one criticism of urban growth boundaries as a policy tool.