Human Geo Unit 4 vocab

Question 1

sovereignty

Answer 1

a states authoruity to control its territory and govern itself

Question 2

self-determiniation

Answer 2

right of all people to govern themselves. may reuslt in independenc movemetn or devolution

Question 3

devolution

Answer 3

due to centrifugal forces, poer shifted from centeral gov to regional authoirties

Question 4

centripedal

Answer 4

unify state

Question 5

centrifugal

Answer 5

divide state

Question 6

irredentism

Answer 6

claim territory from neighbor on border lines due to shared culture with people on border

Question 7

reapportionment

Answer 7

process US house of reps seats reallocated to seats based on population change

Question 8

electoral college

Answer 8

organization utilize popular vote to vote for president

Question 9

voting districts

Answer 9

organize elections

Question 10

redistricting

Answer 10

state international boundaries determine voting districts for us house of pres and state lefistatve

Question 11

gerrymandeign

Answer 11

remaking districs for politial advantage

Question 12

packing district

Answer 12

packing/clustering likeminded peple into one district

Question 13

cracking district

Answer 13

diluting likeminded people among multiple districts to prevent majority

Question 14

relic boundary

Answer 14

thing of the past, old. border no longer exist, but left improint on local culture/envirionemtnal geography

Question 15

superinposed boundry

Answer 15

overlay. border drawn over existing and accepted borders by outside force

Question 16

subsequent boundry

Answer 16

subsequent delay??? borders drawin in areas settled in by poeple, due to changes over time

Question 17

antecedent boundary

Answer 17

borders established before people came. natural feauters like moutain or water

Question 18

geometric boundary

Answer 18

borders established on staright lines of latitie/longitutue instead of physical or culural boundaries

Question 19

consequent boundadry

Answer 19

exdisting cultural distribution of people living in territory and redevelop boundary lines to align with culrual border.

Question 20

defined boundaries

Answer 20

countries legally define and agreet o where boundary are

Question 21

delimtied boundaries

Answer 21

identifying location on map

Question 22

demarcated

Answer 22

visible marking on landscape

Question 23

administered

Answer 23

legal management of border through laws, immigration, regulation, documentation and prosecution

Question 24

political power

Answer 24

control over poeple, land, resources

Question 25

territoriality

Answer 25

peoples connection and claim to land

Question 26

neocolonialism

Answer 26

use of economic, political, or cultural or other pressures in order to control or influence other countries

Question 27

choke points

Answer 27

strategic strait or canal that is narrow and hard to ass thoruhg, ahs competiton for use

Question 28

shatterbelts

Answer 28

instablilty within region thats geographicly located between states with overlapping territoriality adn political pwoer.

Question 29

nation

Answer 29

group of people with common identy thourgh shared culturaal trates like language, religion, ethnicity adn heritage

Question 30

nationstate

Answer 30

borders of a nation match wtih the borders of a state. state wtih ideally one nation in it

Question 31

stateless nation

Answer 31

nation of people with no state

Question 32

multinational states

Answer 32

country wtih various ethnicites and cultures within borders. mixing pot

Question 33

multistate nations

Answer 33

nation of poeople live in more than 1 state

Question 34

autonomous or semiautonomous region

Answer 34

locatin within state that is given authority to govern independantly or somehat independacntly from the national government.

Question 35

ethnicity

Answer 35

identy of a group of pepole whshare the cultural tradtions of a particular homeland/hearth

Question 36

race

Answer 36

identy with a group of poeple who share a physiological trait, like skin color

Question 37

nationality

Answer 37

identy wtih a group of opeole who share legal attachment with a particular country

Question 38

apartheid

Answer 38

legal seperation of races into different geographic areas

Question 39

blockbusting

Answer 39

real estate agenst convince whites to sell property low, then raise price wthn black move in

Question 40

white flight

Answer 40

whites fled where blacks moved in

Question 41

balkanized

Answer 41

small geographic area could not be orgnaied into stabel countreis due to differing ethnicities

Question 42

balkanization

Answer 42

process a state breaks down through conflicts in ethnicity groups

Question 43

colonialism

Answer 43

effort by one country to establish setlemtns in a territory and impose political, economical, and culturea principals

Question 44

colony

Answer 44

territory legally tied to a sovereign state, not independent

Question 45

frontier

Answer 45

zone where no state exersies complete control

Question 46

compact state

Answer 46

distance from center to boundary doesnt vary much, curcle

Question 47

prorupted state

Answer 47

compact state with large protrusion, oklahoma with pan handle

Question 48

perforated state

Answer 48

state complety surrounding anotehr state, south africa (surround lesotho)

Question 49

elongated state

Answer 49

long

Question 50

fragmentated state

Answer 50

islands

Question 51

landlocked states

Answer 51

landlocked