Chapter 9 Vocab

Question 1

antecedent boundaries

Answer 1

Boundaries that are established before many people settle into an area

Question 2

Autonomous

Answer 2

Having the authority to govern territories independently of the national government; for example, by having a separate currency

Question 2

choke point

Answer 2

a narrow, strategic passageway to another place through which it’s difficult to pass

Question 2

Colonialism

Answer 2

the practice of claiming and dominating overseas territories

Question 3

consequent boundary

Answer 3

a type of subsequent boundary that takes into account the differences that exist within a cultural landscape

Question 4

Devolution

Answer 4

the process that occurs when the Central Power and a state is broken up among Regional authorities within its borders

Question 5

exclusive economic zone

Answer 5

An area that extends 200 nautical miles from a state’s Coast; a state that has sole access to resources found within the waters or beneath the sea floor of its EEZ

Question 5

geometric boundary

Answer 5

a mathematically drawn boundary that typically follows lines of latitude and longitude or is a straight line Arc between two points

Question 6

Irredentism

Answer 6

attempts by a state to acquire territories in neighboring states inhabited by people of the same Nation

Question 7

Nation-state

Answer 7

a politically organized and recognized territory composed of a group of people who consider themselves to be a nation

Question 8

Nations

Answer 8

a cultural entity made up of people who have forged a common identity through a shared language, religion, heritage, or ethnicity – often all four of these

Question 9

Neocolonialism

Answer 9

the use of economic, political, cultural, or other pressures to control or influence other countries, especially former dependencies

Question 9

multinational state

Answer 9

a country with various ethnicities and cultures living inside its borders

Question 10

political geography

Answer 10

the study of the ways in which the world is organized as a reflection of the power different groups hold over territory

Question 10

multistate nation

Answer 10

people who share a cultural or ethnic background but live in more than one country

Question 11

Self-determination

Answer 11

the right of old people to choose their own political status

Question 12

semiautonomous

Answer 12

describing a region that is given partial authority to govern its territories independently from the national governments

Question 13

Shatterbelts

Answer 13

A region where States form, join, and break up because of ongoing comma sometimes violent, conflicts among parties and because their caught between the interests of more powerful outside States

Question 14

Sovereignty

Answer 14

the right of a government to control Independence territory and determine what happens within its borders

Question 15

State

Answer 15

a politically organized independent territory with the government, Define borders, and a permanent population; a country

Question 16

stateless nation

Answer 16

a people United by culture, language, history, and tradition but not possessing a state

Question 17

subsequent boundaries

Answer 17

a border drawn in an area that has been settled and were cultural landscapes exist or in the process of being established

Question 18

Territoriality

Answer 18

the attempts to influence or control people and events by do limiting and asserting control over a geographic area; the connection of people, their culture, and their economic systems to the land

Question 18

Superimposed

Answer 18

a border drawn by over existing accepted borders by an outside or conquering Force

Question 19

United Nations Conventions of the Law of the Seas (UNCLOS)

Answer 19

the international agreement that established the structure of Maritime boundaries