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Unit 4 Vocab
AP Human Geography Unit 4 Vocab Ch 9-11
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| administer | to manage the way borders are maintained and how goods and people cross them |
| antecedent boundary | a border estblished before an area becomes heavily settled |
| autonomoous boundary | having authority to govern territories independently of the national government; for example by having a seperate currency |
| choke point | a narrow, strategic passageway to another place through which its difficult to pass through |
| colonialism | the practice of claiming and dominating overseas territories |
| concurrent | sharing authority |
| consequent boundary | a type of subsequent boundary that takes into account the differences that exist within a cultural landscape, seperating groups that hace distinct languages religions, ethnicities, or other traits |
| define | to explicitly state in legally binding documentation such as treaty where boundaries are located, using refrence points such as natural features or lines of latitude and longitude |
| delimit | to draw boundaries on a map, in accordance with legal agreement |
| demarcate | to place physicalobjects such as stones, pillars, walls, or fences to indicate where a boundary exists |
| devolution | the process that occurs when the central power in a state is broken up among regional authorites within borders |
| economies of scale | cost reduction that occurs when production rises |
| electoral college | a set of people, who are chosen to elect the president and vice president in the United States of America |
| ethnic cleansing | a processby which a state attacks an ethnic group and tries to eliminate it through expulsion, imprisonment, or killing |
| ethnic nationalism | the process by which the people of a country identify as having one common identity as having one common ethnicity, religous belief, and language, creating a sense of pride and idenity that is tied to the territory. AKA: ethnonationalism |
| ethnic seperation | the process by which people of a particular ethnicity in a multinational state identify more strongly as members of their ethnic group than citizens of the state |
| ethnonationalism | the process by which the people of a country identify as having one common identity as having one common ethnicity, religous belief, and language, creating a sense of pride and idenity that is tied to the territory. AKA: ethnic nationalism |
| exclusive economic zone (EEZ) | area that extends 200 nautical miles from a state coast; a state has sole access to resources found within the waters or beneath the sea floor of its EEZ |
| federal state | the organization of a state in which power is shared between the federal government and its internal regional units |
| geometric boundary | a mathematically drawn boundary that tipically follows lines of latitude and longitude or straight line arc between two points |
| gerry mandering | the drawing of legislative boundaries to give one political party an advantage in elections |
| imperialism | the push to create an empire by exercising force or influence to control other nations or peoples |
| irredentism | attempts by a state to aquire territories in the neighboring states inhabited by people of the same nation. |
| majority-minority district | an electoral district in which the majority of voters are members of ethnic or racial minority |
| multinational state | a country with various ethnicities and cultures living inside its borders |
| multistate nation | people who share a cultural or ethnic background but live in more than one country |
| nation | a cultural entity made up of people who have forged common identity through a shared laguage, religion, heritage, or ethnicity; often all four |
| nation-state | a politically organized and recognized territory composed of a group of people who consider themselves to be a nation |
| neocolonialism | the use of economic, political, cultural, or other pressures to control or influence other countries, especially former dependancies |
| political geography | the study of the ways in which the world is organized as a reflection of the power different groups hold over territory |
| reapportionment | the redistribution of representative seats among states based on shifts in population |
| redistricting | the redrawing of internal territorial and political boundaries |
| relic | a former boundary that no longer has an official function |
| self-determination | the right of all people to choose their own political status |
| semi-autonomus | describing a region that is given partial authority to govern its territories independently from the national government |
| shatterbelt | a region where states form, join, and break up because of an ongoing, sometimes violent, conflict among parties and because they are caught between interests of more powerful outside states |
| sovereighty | the right of a governemt to control and defend its territoy and determine what happens within its borders |
| state | a politically organized independent territory with a government, defined borders, and a pernment population; a country |
| stateless nation | people united by culture, language, hisotry, and tradition but not possesing a state |
| subsequent boundaries | a border drawn in an area that has been settled and where cultural landscapesexist or are in process of being established |
| superimposed boundary | a boder drawn over existig accepted borders by an outside or conquering force |
| supernational organization | an alliance of three or more states that work together in pursuit of common goals or to addresss an issue or challenge |
| territory | the attepmt to influence or control people and events by delimiting and asserting control over a geographic area, the connection of people their culture, and their economic systems to the land |
| unitary state | an organization of a state in which power is concentrated on central government |
| United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) | the international agreement that established the structure of maritime boundaries. |
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