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1. To political geographers, the terms 'state' and 'nation' mean the same thing; 'state' is considered a more formal term

2. Which o the following is the concept of moksha least associated?

3. A group of people who have been forced to migrate of of their original homeland and have become scattered across many areas beyond their homeland is referenced as a :

4. Which of the following religions groups contains the largest population of adherents?

5. In Jerusalem, the Temple Mount, which is an important Jewish sacred site, has the same location as the:

6. What god do Hindus consider to be the supreme spiritual source who sustains the universe?

7. By international convention, a state's Exclusive Economic Zone lies within about a dozen nautical miles of its coastline.

8. Which of the following religious concepts does the photo of Eklutna Cemetery best provide landscape evidence of?

9. What is the optimal geometric shape of competing market areas in central place theory?

10. The provision of highly-specialized goods or services requires a smaller threshold than groceries, fuel, and general merchandise

11. Which of the following is not a condition by which a state exists?

12. Which of the following works against internal order and encourages destruction of a state?

13. The Arab Spring uprisings of 2011 were among the first major political revolts in which digital technologies, namely cell phones and social networks, were used to organize activity. Which of the following concepts does this best illustrate?

14. In what year did the world's total population become officially urbanized by reaching the 50 percent urbanized threshold?

15. Prior to 1975, most of the world's largest cities were located in:

16. Which ethnic religion did Christianity diverge from?

17. An ethnic religion is a belief system that is worldwide in scope and welcomes all people as potential adherents.

18. Shiites make up population majorities in all of the following except:

19. Which of the following is not one of the four states classified by the U.S. Department of State as state-sponsors of terrorism?

20. During the late 1700s, British colonists imported agricultural laborers from _______, which established a sizeable population of people from that region near the city of ________, South Africa.

21. What major world region has the smallest proportion of its population living in the slums?

22. Which of the following pairs most consider their church buildings to be sacred space?

23. A security landscape is created to protect the territory, people, facilities, and infrastructure of a state

24. Secondary hearths are places or regions where a religion was located during a period in which it fragmented or diverged to form a new sect. For example, western Europe (including Germany, the Low Countries, France, and the British Isles) is a secondary hearth of Christianity because Protestantism emerged there during the reformation

25. Vatican City, a microstate within Rome, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Church. The Vatican is, therefore, a good example of a primary hearth.