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Ch. 8 BB Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Political Geography | the study of political orginization of the world |
| Territoriality | the attemp by an individual or group to affect or control people, phenomena and relationships by asserting control over an area |
| Capitalism | People or states etc produce goods and exchange them to the world market with a goal to make a profit |
| Core | High edu, High salary, more technology higher economy |
| Periphery | Low edu, Low salary, less technology low economy |
| Semi-Periphery | places where core and periphery are both occuring |
| Devolution | the movement of power from the central gov. to regional gov within a state |
| Territorial representation | each representation is elected from a territorially defined districts in the house of representative |
| Reapportionment | the process by which districts are moved according to population shifts |
| spliting | process by which the minority and majority where seprated over an area equally to ensure majority control |
| Majority-minority districts | packed districts where a majority of the populayion is the minority |
| Geometric Boundarie | when boundaries are drawn using gris system like lattitude longitude and townships and ranges |
| physical political boundarie | boundaries that follow an aggred upon feature in the the physical landscape |
| Heartlan theory | any political power based in the heart of Eurasia could dominate the world |
| Supranational orginization | a seprate entity composed of 3 or more states that share a common goal and want mutal benifit |