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- Q1
Which of the following describes a person's assignment to a voting district?
A person is assigned to a voting district based on placement of employment.
A person is assigned to rotating voting districts depending upon the candidate's level of office.
Each person selects a rotating district based on personal political preferences.
A person is assigned to a voting district based on permanent residence.
Each person is assigned to a voting district that is located in the capital city of the state residence.
120s - Q2
Which of the following explains a limitation of using maps colored in red and blue to analyze regional voting patterns?
In states where the popular vote is extremely close, designating a color to those states masks the narrow margin of victory and exaggerates the existence of regional polarization.
Analysts often confuse the designations of the colors and report information relating to a par-ty’s win that incorrectly identifies a region.
The red and blue colors do not explain why one state is more conservative than another state even though they are side by side on the map and are expected to be in the same region.
The red and blue colors are too prominent in the eastern regions and discourage people in the western regions from voting when they per-ceive that their preferred candidate is losing throughout the country.
Some states show “redder” or “bluer” because they have more counties than opposing states, thus negatively impacting regional analysis.
300s - Q3
Which of the following concepts in political geog-raphy can help explain a possible outcome in the shaded states on the map?
Reapportionment
Partisan gerrymandering
Regionalization
Space and place
Racial gerrymandering
120s - Q4
Given the available electoral votes shown on the map for the shaded states, which of the following best explains the outcome of electoral voting for New York and Florida?
No votes in either state would affect a presi-dential election because identical votes would not be counted.
Only the electoral votes in New York State would be used to determine the winning candi-date because retirees living in Florida vote in New York State.
Electoral votes from New York State would be evenly divided between the two political par-ties and the leftover vote would be added to Florida.
In both cases, the electoral votes would be applied to the tally for the candidate with the most popular votes in their respective state as the winner takes all electoral votes.
The votes from Rhode Island would be added to votes from New York State, giving the Democratic candidate an advantage over the Republican candidate.
300s - Q5
Which of the following explains a possible limita-tion of the information shown on the map if one is analyzing gerrymanders?
The map only shows information for large states with a high number of electoral votes.
The map does not show the population of any of the states.
The map does not address racial bias in the shaded states that could also affect the redistricting.
The map does not show information for outstanding court cases that address gerrymandering.
The map does not include information for Alaska & Hawaii.
300s - Q6
The Berlin Conference established the borders of North African countries including Egypt, Libya, and Sudan. The landscape of these countries influenced the types of boundaries imposed by the European colonial powers. Which of the following boundary types best explains the influence of landscape on the political borders of the North African region?
Antecedent, based on tribal cultural boundaries that existed before European colonization
Subsequent, with smaller buffer states placed between larger states to prevent political conflicts
Consequent, accounting for local differences in language and religion during European colonization
Natural, with irregular lines, accounting for regional physical features such as mountains or water bodies
Geometric, with straight lines, disregarding physical features or tribal cultural differences of the areas
300s - Q7
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea sets the limit of the exclusive economic zone at 200 nautical miles from a country’s coastline. In cases where countries are less than 400 nautical miles apart at sea, which of the following explains how the exclusive economic zone boundary is determined for each country?
Both countries will state their case to the United Nations during a hearing of the Security Council.
Both countries will follow the median-line principle.
Both countries will share all of the water area.
Neither country can claim the area as an exclusive economic zone because the area is considered international water.
Both countries will receive increased territorial sea claims up to 24 nautical miles but will have no exclusive economic zone.
300s - Q8
Boundaries based on the median-line principle are generally associated with
major highways
converging ethnic territories
unsettled frontier zones
bodies of water
mountain ridges
120s - Q9
The Philippines and Malaysia lay claim to resources under and around the Spratly Islands. Which of the following best explains how the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) influences claims to the islands by both countries?
The claims to the Spratly Islands by both the Philippines and Malaysia overlap due to exclusive economic zones up to 200 nautical miles from their coasts.
The Philippines and Malaysia both claim the islands lie within their territorial seas up to 12 nautical miles from their coasts.
The claims to the islands by the Philippines and Malaysia overlap due to the median line principle.
The Philippines and Malaysia both claim ownership to the resources based on a historic possession of the islands.
The Philippines and Malaysia both claim the islands lie within their contiguous zones between 12 and 24 nautical miles from their coasts.
300s - Q10
Which of the following best explains the governance of the shaded areas shown on the map?
These areas are established as nation-states for indigenous peoples at the local scale.
These areas show territory occupied by indigenous peoples as stateless nations at a local scale.
These areas show territory controlled by indigenous peoples as a single multistate nation.
These areas show where indigenous peoples have a limited amount of self-government at a national scale.
These areas are lands of indigenous peoples that are sovereign independent states at an international scale.
120s - Q11
Crossing which of the following borders requires few, if any, formalities and thus encourages the free flow of people and products?
Netherlands-Belgium
India-Pakistan
U.S.-Canada
Romania-Ukraine
North Korea-South Korea
120s - Q12
In 1982 the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) established freedom-of-navigation rights and defined territorial waters as a 12-nautical-mile limit from the coast where individual states have political and economic sovereignty. However, Greece and Turkey still only claim a 6-nautical-mile territorial sea.
What do the maps indicate regarding the political geography of the Aegean Sea?
Turkey controls most of the islands in the Aegean Sea.
Greece controls most of the islands in the Aegean Sea.
Turkey and Greece share control of most of the islands in the Aegean Sea.
Turkey controls all access from the Dardanelles to the Mediterranean Sea.
Greece controls all access from the Aegean Sea to the Black Sea.
300s - Q13
The provisions of the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea give coastal countries navigational and economic sovereignty over which of the following zones?
Twelve-nautical-mile territorial sea zone
Export processing zone (EPZ)
200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone
Empowerment zone
Continental shelf
120s - Q14
What is the source of dispute between Canada, Russia, Norway, Denmark, and the United States over political boundaries in the Arctic Ocean and ownership of the North Pole?
They all claim the right to extract natural resources out to the edge of the continental shelf, beyond their exclusive economic zones.
They all claim to have had indigenous residents from their countries living on the polar ice pack at sometime in the past.
Each claims the first explorer to reach the North Pole came from their country and planted their flag, signifying ownership.
The northern polar region has the same international treaties that govern land use and resources in Antarctica.
The North Pole is the focal point of all the intersecting boundaries on the map. However, it floats on a constantly moving ice sheet.
300s - Q15
United Nations recognition of a state's "exclusive economic zone" allows the state to
establish economic free trade zones within the sovereign territory of other states
claim national economic jurisdiction over 200 nautical miles of water extending from its coast
limit importation of competitive goods and services from other countries
protect domestic production by imposing tariffs on all foreign-made products
form limited economic alliances with other countries
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