AP®︎ Human Geography: Topic 4.9 Practice Test
Prepare for your quiz, test, or the AP exam with focused practice questions on Topic 4.9 of AP Human Geography – Challenges to Sovereignty.
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Topic 4.9
Question 1 Easy
This question tests the following: SPS-4.B
What term describes a state's supreme authority to govern itself?
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Topic 4.9: Challenges to Sovereignty
Learning Objective: SPS-4.B
Explain how political, economic, cultural, and technological changes challenge state sovereignty.
Essential Knowledge: SPS-4.B.1
Devolution occurs when states fragment into autonomous regions; subnational political-territorial units, such as those within Spain, Belgium, Canada, and Nigeria; or when states disintegrate, as happened in Sudan and the former Soviet Union.
Essential Knowledge: SPS-4.B.2
Advances in communication technology have facilitated devolution, supranationalism, and democratization.
Essential Knowledge: SPS-4.B.3
Global efforts to address transnational and environmental challenges and to create economies of scale, trade agreements, and military alliances help to further supranationalism.
Essential Knowledge: SPS-4.B.4
Supranational organizations—including the United Nations (UN), North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), European Union (EU), Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Arctic Council, and African Union— can challenge state sovereignty by limiting the economic or political actions of member states.
