4.5-4.6 Flashcards

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How a boundary will be maintained, how it will function, and what goods and people will be allowed to cross

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Administered boundary

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When a boundary separates natural resources that may be used by both countries

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Allocational boundary dispute(resource dispute)

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Costal states that have limited sovereignty for up to 24 nautical miles where they can enforce laws on customs,immigration, and sanitation

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Contiguous zone

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Boundaries that have checkpoints where a passport or visa are required to enter a country

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Controlled borders

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A boundary established by a legal document, such as a treaty, that divides one entity from another

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Defined boundary

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A boundary drawn on a map by a cartographer to show the limits of a space

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Delimited boundary

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A boundary identified by physical objects placed on the landscape

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Demarcated boundary

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When two or more parties disagree over how to interpret the legal document or maps that identify the boundary

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Definitional boundary

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Territories that are a part of a state, yet geographically separate from the main state by one or more countries

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Exclaves

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Zones where coastal states can explore,extract minerals and manage natural resources up to 200 nautical miles

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Exclusive economic zone(EEZ)

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Water beyond any countries EEZ(exclusive economic zone) that is open to all states

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High seas

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A type of expansionism when one country seeks to annex territory where it has cultural ties to a part of the population or the land

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Irredentism

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Disputes that center on where a boundary should be, how its delimited, or demarcated

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Locational boundary disputes(territorial disputes)

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States,territories, or parts of a state or territory that are completely surrounded by the territory of another state

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Political enclaves

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A dispute that centers not on where a boundary is but how it functions

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Operational boundary disputes(functional dispute)

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A place located between two very different and contentious regions

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Shatter belt

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Areas that control nearly 30% of all oceans and seas and their EEZ’s are much larger than their large mass

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Small island developing state(SIDS)

17
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Areas that extend up to twelve nautical miles of sovereignty where commercial vessels may pass, but non commercial vessels may be challenged

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Territorial seas

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A law that states if two coastal states share a waterway and are less that 24 nautical miles apart then the distance between the two coasts is divided by half

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

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A count of the population, every ten years, to ensure the national congressional districts have approximately the same number of people

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Census

20
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Dispersing a group into several districts to prevent a majority

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Cracking

21
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Using spatial thinking techniques and tools to analyze elections and voting patterns

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Electoral geography

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People of a country who are eligable to vote

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Electorate

23
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The drawing of boundaries for political districts by the party in power to protect or increase its power

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Gerrymandering

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Redrawing two districts in order to force two elected representatives of the same party to run against eachother

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Hijacking

25
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Boundaries that are used at the subnational scale to divide countries into smaller units

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Internal boundaries

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Moving an area where an elected representative has support to an area where he or she does not support

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Kidnapping

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Combining like minded voters into one district to prevent them from affecting elections in other districts

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Packing

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Changing the number of representatives granted to each state so it reflects the states populations

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Reapportionment

29
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When state legislative or state committees redraw district countries so that each district contains roughly the same number of people

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Redistricting

30
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Dividing a minority-population district with majority populations

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Stacking

31
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Internal boundaries that divide a countries electorate into subnational regions

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Voting districts