NS3 Naval Knowledge Unit 4 Chapter 2 with Complete Solutions

What rule governs the use of major canals by belligerent nations? - ANSWER-All of the answers are correct. Where is there NOT special activity in continental shelf oil exploration and exploitation? - ANSWER-Red Sea off Egypt What are rivers that lie entirely within one country called? - ANSWER-National rivers If one or more rivers form a boundary between two or more countries, what are they called? - ANSWER-International rivers If an international river is not navigable, the territorial boundary lies in the geographic center of the river. If it is navigable, the center of the deepest channel marks the boundary; it is called a thalweg. - ANSWER-True In exercising freedom of the high seas, reasonable regard must be given to the rights of others to use the high seas to conduct maritime commerce, to navigate, to fish, to lay submarine cables and pipelines, and to undertake scientific research. - ANSWER-True __________ refers to the question of with whom jurisdiction in the 12-to-200?mile economic zone rests?the coastal state, or the international community as a whole. - ANSWER-Residuum of authority In its economic zone, a sovereign state can take only limited self-defense measures as is required to guarantee its existence. - ANSWER-False What particular resources are now becoming available from the seabed of the continental shelf? - ANSWER-Oil/Minerals The Geneva Convention defines the term __________ as the seabed and subsoil of the submarine areas adjacent to the coast beyond the territorial sea to a depth of 200 meters (656 feet), or beyond that limit to where the depth of the superjacent waters allows exploitation of the natural resources. - ANSWER-Continental shelf Cases involving ship collisions on the high seas are heard in the admiralty court of the maritime nation having jurisdiction. - ANSWER-True What is an archipelagic nation? - ANSWER-One composed of many islands