Module 27-28 Vocab

Question 1

Neocolonialism

Answer 1

The set of economic and political strategies by which wealthy and powerful countries indirectly maintain or extend their influence over less wealthy areas.

Question 2

Peripheral States

Answer 2

States that have relatively little industrial development, simple production systems focused mainly on agriculture and raw materials, and low levels of consumption of manufactured goods.

Question 3

Core States

Answer 3

States that have the most advanced industrial and military technologies, complex manufacturing systems, external political power, and highest levels of wealth and mass consumption.

Question 4

Shatterbelts

Answer 4

Region of continuing and persistent fragmentation due to devolution and centrifugal forces.

Question 5

Choke Points

Answer 5

A narrow passage that restricts traffic to another region

Question 6

Strait

Answer 6

A narrow body of water connecting two larger bodies of water.

Question 7

Boundary

Answer 7

A clearly demarcated line that marks both the limits of a territory and divisions between territories; often called a border at the global scale.

Question 8

Median Line Principle

Answer 8

An approach to dividing and creating boundaries at the midpoint between two places

Question 9

Borderland

Answer 9

A region straddling both sides of an international boundary, where national cultures overlap and blend to varying degrees.

Question 10

Frontier

Answer 10

A region at the margins of state control and settlement

Question 11

Enclave

Answer 11

A territory surrounded by a country but not ruled by it.

Question 12

Exclave

Answer 12

Part of national territory separated from the main body at the country to which it belongs.

Question 13

Delimited

Answer 13

Describing how boundaries are fixed or defined to identify their limits.

Question 14

Demarcated

Answer 14

Describing how boundaries are set apart to distinguish their limits.

Question 15

Relic Boundary

Answer 15

A boundary that no longer functions as an international border.

Question 16

Superimposed Boundaries

Answer 16

A boundary that is placed on an area without rearguard to existing borders.

Question 17

Subsequent Boundaries

Answer 17

A political boundary that developed with the landscape.

Question 18

Antecedent Boundaries

Answer 18

A boundary that was identified before an area was settled.

Question 19

Geometric Boundaries

Answer 19

A boundary that has regular, often perfectly straight lines drawn without regard for areas physical or cultural features.

Question 20

Consequent Boundaries

Answer 20

A boundary that is drawn to accommodate existing cultural differences.

Question 21

Demilitarized Zones

Answer 21

An area in which treaties or agreements between nations, military powers, or contending groups forbid military installations, actives, or personnel; usually lies along and established frontier or boundary between two or more military powers or alliances.

Question 22

Buffer States

Answer 22

A politically and economically weak independent country that lies in-between the borders of the two powers.

Question 23

Satellite States

Answer 23

A normally independent country that is politically, militarily, and economically controlled by a more powerful state.

Question 24

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)

Answer 24

Conference organized to define territorial boundaries and rights to sea.

Question 25

Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)

Answer 25

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. Most crucial zone

Question 26

Arctic Circle

Answer 26

Area defined by the 66 degree, 24 minutes north latitude line.