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- Annexation - the formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation.
- Allocational/resource boundary dispute - Dispute over location and resources.
- Antarctica - No one owns it.
- Antecedent boundary - A boundary that existed before the cultural landscape emerged and stayed in place while people moved in to occupy the surrounding area.
- Border landscape - There are two types, exclusionary and inclusionary. Exclusionary is meant to keep people out, such as the border between the U.S. and Mexico. Inclusionary is meant to facilitate trade and movement, such as the U.S.-Canada border.
- Buffer state - a small neutral state between two rival powers.
- Capital - Principal city in a state or country. The best place to locate a capital is at the center of a country, so it is a somewhat equal distance from all parts of the country.
- Centrifugal - Tending to move away from a center.
- Centripetal - Tending to move toward a center.
- City-state - A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside.
- Cleavage Model - A political-geographical model suggesting that persistent regional patterns in voting behavior, sometimes leading to separatism, can usually be explained in terms of tensions pitting urban against rural, core against periphery, capitalists against workers, and power group against minority culture.
- Colonialism - Exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one.
- Compact state - A state that possesses a roughly circular, oval, or rectangular territory in which the distance from the geometric center is relatively equal in all directions.
- Confederation - The act of forming an alliance or confederation.
- Conference of Berlin (1884) - Regulated trade and colonization in Africa. It formalized the scramble to gain colonies in Africa and set up boundaries for each country's colonies.
- Core area - A region in the home range that is used frequently. Fruiting trees,termite mounds, sleeping sites, water resources.
- Cultural/ethnographic political boundary - Boundaries that mark breaks in the human landscape based on differences in ethnicity.
- Decolonization - The action of changing from colonial to independent status.
- Definitional boundary dispute - Conflict over the language of the border agreement in a treaty or boundary contract.
- Definition phase in boundary process - The phase in which the exact location of a boundary is legally described and negotiated.
- Delimitation phase in boundary creation - In which the exact location of a boundary is legally described and negotiated.
- Demarcation phase in boundary process - Phase in which the boundary is visibly marked on the landscape by a fence, line, sign, wall or other means.
- Devolution - The process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality.
- Domino theory - The political theory that if one nation comes under Communist control then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control.
- Exclusive Economic Zone - Generally a state's EEZ extends to a distance of 200 nautical miles (370 km) out from its coast. The exception to this rule occurs when EEZs would overlap; that is, state coastal baselines are less than 400 nautical miles apart. When an overlap occurs, it is up to the states to delineate the actual boundary.[1] Generally, any point within an overlapping area defaults to the most proximate state.
- Electoral geography - The study of the interactions among space, place and region and the conduct and results of elections.
- Elongated state - A state whose territory is long and narrow in shape.
- Enclave - An enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it.
- Ethnic conflict - Type of conflict that occurs when different tribes are lumped together to form a country.
- European Union - An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
List of vocab for AP Human Geography exam | AP Exam Vocabulary Items | A Vocabulary List for AP Human Geography | Vocabulary Words For AP Human Geography ALL TERMS.
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- What does defiantly mean?
- Someone who speaks petulantly is
- Doing something in a perfunctory way means doing it without
- Profusely means
- Dissenters are people who most likely
- A dogma is a principle most often put forth by
- What word is most closely related to the meaning of sanctity?
- Orthodoxy means
- Resilience means the ability to
- Which phrase best defines reaffirmation?
- An idea in a text that is implicit is
- A compulsion is a
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