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Question 1

delimited

Answer 1

describing how boundaries are fixed and defined to identity their limits

Question 2

demarcated

Answer 2

describing how boundaries are set apart to distinguish their limits

Question 3

relic boundary

Answer 3

a boundary that no longer functions as an international borders

Question 4

examples of relic boundary

Answer 4

Hadrian’s Wall and Berlin Wall

Question 5

superimposed boundary

Answer 5

a boundary that is places on an area without regards to existing boundaries

Question 6

subsequent boundary

Answer 6

a political boundary that developed with the cultural landscape

Question 7

examples of superimposed boundary

Answer 7

boundaries placed on African states during the Berlin Conference

Question 8

examples of subsequent boundaries

Answer 8

boundary between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland

Question 9

antecedent boundary

Answer 9

a boundary that was identified before an area was settled

Question 10

geometric boundary

Answer 10

a boundary that has regular, often perfectly straight lines drawn without regards for an area’s physical or cultural features

Question 11

example of an antecedent boundary

Answer 11

boundary between Canada and US

Question 12

consequent boundary

Answer 12

a boundary that is drawn to accommodate existing cultural differences

Question 13

example of a consequent boundary

Answer 13

boundary between India and Pakistan

Question 14

example of a geometric boundary

Answer 14

boundary between US and Canada

Question 15

demilitarized zone

Answer 15

an area in which treaties/agreement between nationals, military powers, or contending groups forbid military installations activities, or personnel; usually lies along an established frontier or boundary between 2 or more military alliances

Question 16

buffer state

Answer 16

a politically and economically weak independent country that lies between borders of 2 powers

Question 17

example of a buffer state

Answer 17

Mongolia

Question 18

satellite state

Answer 18

a nominally independent country that is politically, militarily, and economically controlled by a more powerful state

Question 19

example of a satellite state

Answer 19

Poland and Belarus

Question 20

united nations convention on the law of the sea (UNCLOS)

Answer 20

conference organized to define territorial boundaries and rights to the sea

Question 21

exclusive economic zone

Answer 21

zone that extends 200 nautical miles from shoreline in which coastal states have the sole right to exploit, develop, manage, and conserve all water resources lying beyond the land

Question 22

The Spratly Islands

Answer 22

uninhabited group of hundreds of islands and reefs in the South China Sea