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APHG Chapter 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Boundary | Somethings that indicated bounds of limits |
| Boundary Delimitation | political boundaries on Earth's surface are determined by the use of man-made structures such as fences and walls. |
| Boundary Dispute | When 2 or more states disagree about the demarcation of a political boundary. |
| Compact State | The Distance from the geographic center of the area to any point on the boundary does not vary greatly |
| Elongated State | State that is geographically long and narrow |
| Enclave | Portion of a state that is totally surrounded by another state |
| Exclave | small portion of land that is separated from the main state |
| Fragmented State | State split into many pieces |
| Landlocked State | State not having direct access to an ocean |
| Perforated State | State that totally surrounds another state |
| Prorupt State | State having a portion of a territory that is elongated |
| Microstate | state that is extremely small |
| Nation-State | Political unit comprising a clearly delineated territory where the population shared a common history and culture |
| Subsoil | below the surface of Earth. Boundaries are vertical planes, not merely lines of a map |
| Frontier | Zone where no state exercises political control |
| Physical Boundary | Major physical features such as deserts, mountain ranges, and or water bodies that serve as a means of separation |
| Geometric Boundary | Straight line that serve as political boundaries that are unrelated to physical and or cultural differences |
| Cultural Political Bondary | political boundary that separates difference cultures |
| Religious Boundary | Boundary that separates different religions |
| Language Boundary | Boundary that separates different language speakers |
| Genetic Boundary | How boundaries evolve over time |
| Antecendent Boundary | Boundary that was created before the present day cultural landscape developed |
| Subsequent Boundary | Boundaries that are created as a result of long-term process |
| Super Imposed Boundary | boundary that has been forced upon the inhabitants of an area to solve a problem and conflict |
| Relict Boundary | Boundary that ceases to exist, however the imprint of the boundary still remains of the cultural landscape |
| Fortified Boundary | When a state constructs physical barriers along a boundary to either keep people in or out of its territory |
| Nation | geographic are that is dominated by a large population that shares a common history and culture |
| State | political entity that maintains status as an independent country. |
| Ability | The capacity of a state to influence other states or achiever it's goals through diplomatic, economic, and militaristic means. |
| Capitalism | Economic model where in people corporations and states produce goods and exchange them on the world market. |
| Centripetal | Forces that tend to unify a country |
| Colonialism | rule by autonomous power over a subordinate and alien people and places. |
| Commodification | The process through which something is given monetary value. |
| Core | Process that incorporates higher levels of education, higher salaries, and more technologies. |
| Critical Geopolitics | Process by which geopolticians deconstruct and focus on explaining the underlying spatial assumptions and territorial perspectives of politicians. |
| Democracy | Government based on the principle that the people are the ultimate sovereign and have the final say over what happens within the state. |
| Devolution | The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy. |
| Federal | A political-territorial system wherein a central government represents the various entities within a nation-state where they have common interests. |
| Gerrymandering | Redistricting for advantage, or practice of dividing areas into electoral districts to give 1 political party and electoral majority in a large number of districts while concentrating the voting strength of the opposition in as few districts as possible. |
| Heartland Theory | a geopolitical hypothesis, proposed by British geographer Halford Mackinder,that any political power based in the heart of Eurasia could gain sufficient strength to eventually dominate the world. |
| Majority-Minority Districts | In the context of determining representative districts, the process by which a majority of the population is from the minority. |
| Mercantilism | Associated with the promotion of commercialism and trade. |
| Multinational State | State with more than one nation within its borders |
| Multistate Nation | Nation that stretches across borders and across states |
| Peace of Westphalia | Peace negotiated in 1648 to end the 30 year's war. |
| Periphery | Processes that incorporate lower levels of education, lower salaries, and less technology; and generate less wealth that core processes in the world-economy |
| Physical-political boundary | Political boundary defined and delimited by a prominent physical feature in the natural landscape |
| Political Geography | a subdivision of human geography focused on the nature and implications of the evolving spatial organization of political governance and formal political practice on earth's surface. |
| Reapportionment | Process by which representative districts are switched according to population shifts, so that each district encompasses approximately the same number of people. |
| Scale | Representation of a real-world phenomenon at a certain level of reduction or generalization. |
| Semi-periphery | Place where core and periphery processes are both occurring |
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