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100
WHAT IS GLOBAL COMMONS
TB: THOS PARTS OF OUR ENVIRONMENT AVILABLE TO EVERYONE BUT FOR WHICH NO SINGLE INDIVIDUAL HAS RESPONSIBILTY - THE ATMOSPHERE, FRESH WATER, FOREST,S WILDLIFE, AND OCEAN FISHERIES
100
what is apartheid
What is TB: laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas.
100
What is Nunavut
What is the largest and newest territory of Canada
100
What is Israel/Palestine
Israel is a state. Pelestine is a nation of people - there is a lot of ethnic conflict there
100
What is territorial morphology
What is a state's physical shape
200
What is boundary type geometric
What is TB: a political border drawn in a regular, geometric manner, often straight line. Without regard for environmental or cultural patterns
200
What is the iron curtain?
What is the boundary separating the NATO states from the WARSAW pact states, such as the Berlin Wall
200
What is heartland/rimland
The heartland refers to upper Eurasa Rimland refers to the area surrounding the Heartland
200
What is a capital
What is the principal city in a state or country. The best place to locate a capital is at the center of a country, so it is somewhat equal distance from all parts of the country
200
what is territoriality
What is a fundamental aspect of human behavior and refers to the need to lay claim to the spaces we occupy and the things we own
300
What is geopolitics
What is the study of the effects of economic geography on the powers of the state
300
what is irredentism
TB: The doctrine that irrendental should be dcontrolled by the country to which they are ethnically or historically related
300
What is Federal?
What is TB: an internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government
300
What are territorial disputes
What is What is any dispute over land ownership
400
what is ethnic conflict
what is the type of conflict that occurs when different tribes are lumped together to form a country
400
What is Lebanon
What is the middle-eastern state bordering Syria and Israel
400
what is forward capital
TB: capital city positioned in a ctually or potentially contested territory usually near an international border, it confirms the states cdetermination to maintain its presence in the region in contention
400
What is (boundary, type) ethnographic/cultural?
What are boundaries that mark breaks in the human landscape based on differences in ethnicity
500
what is enclave and exclave
enclave - an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foregin territory that surrounds it exclave - a part of a country that is seperated from the rest of the country and surrounded by foreign territory
500
What are the immigrant states
What is TB: states with a lot of immigrants
500
what is the European Union
What is TB: an international organization of European coutnries formed after WWII to reduce trace barriers and increase cooperation among its members
500
what is (territorial morphology) fragmented
What is TB: a state that is not a contiguous whole but rather separated parts
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