AP Human Geography- Unit 4, Part 3 – Flashcards
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Perforated state
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A state whose territory is interrupted ("perforated") by a separate, independent state totally contained within its borders.
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Physical/natural political boundary
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Political boundary defined and delimited (and occasionally demarcated) by a prominent physical feature in the natural landscape such as a river or the crest ridges of a mountain range.
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Political Geography
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A subdivision of human geography focused on the nature and implications of the evolving spatial organization of political governance and formal political practice on the Earth's surface. It is concerned with why political spaces emerge in the places that they do and with how the character of those spaces affects social, political, economic, and environmental understandings and practices.
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Prorupt (protruded) state
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An otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension.
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Raison d'être
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A basic, essential purpose; a reason to exist
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Reapportionment
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The process and outcome of a reallocation of electoral seats to defined territories, such as congressional seats to states of the United States.
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Regionalism
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A feeling of collective identity based on a population's politico-territorial identification within a state or across state boundaries.
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Relic boundary
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A former boundary line that is still discernible and marked by some cultural landscape feature.
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Reunification
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The unification of something that was previously divided; used especially of a country
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Rimland Theory
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The American idea that whoever controlled the "rimland" of the Eurasian continent (Korea, India, Pakistan, Taiwan, etc.) would be able to suppress any attempts by anyone to take over the world again.
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Satellite state
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A country which is formally independent, but under heavy influence or control by another country.
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Self-determination
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The right of a group with a distinctive politico-territorial identity to determine its own destiny, at least in part, through the control of its own territory.
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Sovereignty
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Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states.
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State
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A politically organized territory that is administered by sovereign government and is recognized by a significant portion of the international community. A state has a defined territory, a permanent population, a government, and is recognized by other states.
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Stateless nation
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Nation that does not have a state.
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Subsequent boundary
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A boundary line that is established after the area in question has been settled and that considers the cultural characteristics of the bounded area.
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Suffrage
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The civil right to vote, or the exercise of that right
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Superimposed boundary
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A boundary line placed over and ignoring an existing cultural pattern.
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Supranationalism
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Term applied to associations created by three or more states for their mutual benefit and achievement of shared objectives.
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Territorial disputes
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A disagreement over the possession/control of land between two or more states, or over the possession or control of land
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Territorial morphology
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A state's physical shape; including: elongated, compact, fragmented, prorupt, perforated
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Territoriality
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A country's or more local community's sense of property and attachment toward its territory, as expressed by its determination to keep it inviolable and strongly defended.
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Terrorism
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Systematic open and covert action employing fear and terror as a means of political coercion.
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UNCLOS (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea)
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A code of maritime law approved by the United Nations in 1982 that authorizes, among other provisions, territorial waters extending 12 nautical miles (22km) from shore and 200-nautical-mile-wide (370-km-wide) exclusive economic zones.
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Unitary state
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A form of government in which power is concentrated in the central government.
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United Nations
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An organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security
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Warsaw Pact
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An organization of communist states in Central and Eastern Europe
