Unit 4 Vocab Part 2 Flashcards
Describing how boundaries are fixed or defined to identify their limits.
Deliminated
Describing how boundaries are set apart to distinguish their limits.
Demarcated
A boundary that no longer functions as an international border.
Relic Boundary
A boundary that’s placed on an area without regard to existing boundaries.
Superimposed Boundary
A political boundary that developed with cultural landscape.
Subsequent Boundary
A boundary that was identified before an area was settled.
Antecedent Boundary
A boundary that has a regular, often straight, lines drawn without regard for an area’s physical or cultural features.
Geometric Boundary
An area in which treaties or agreements between nations, military powers or contending groups forbid military installations activities or personnel usually lies along an established frontier or boundary between 2 or more military powers.
Dematerialized Zone DMZ
A territorial division for casting votes in public elections.
Voting District
The process by which the 435 seats in the US House of Representatives are divided proportionally by population among the states following every US census.
Reapportionment
The process of drawing new boundaries for US congressional districts to reflect the population changes since the previous US census.
Redistricting
Manipulation of voting district boundaries to favor a particular political party, group, or election outcome.
Gerrymandering
An independent state that concentrates power in the central government and grants little to no authority to its subunits
Unitary State
An independent country that disperses significant authority among subnational units.
Federal State
The political claim to territory in another country based on ethnic affiliations and historic borders.
Irredentism
