Vocab 1
Location
Political Geo
Misc.
Vocab 2
100
a racial segregation/prejudice in south africa
What is apartheid?
100
where did the berlin conference take place
Berlin
100
The movement of power form the cnetral government to regional movements within the state.
What is Devolution
100
Name 3 core countries Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Northern Ireland, UK, Iceland, Spain, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland.
Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Northern Ireland, UK, Iceland, Spain, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland.
100
when one state absorbs a territory
What is annexation
200
a state in between a core and peripheral state
What is a buffer state?
200
Name 2 countries that the nation Kurdistan spansTurkey,Iran,Azerbaijan,Syria,Iraq,Armenia
Kurdistan spansTurkey,Iran,Azerbaijan,Syria,Iraq,Armenia
200
A state with more than one nation inside its borders.
What is a Multinational State?
200
Name 3 countries that colonized between 1550 and 1950
Great britain, France, Spain, Portugal, netherlands, Belgium, Italy, turkey, Russia, Japan, Denmark
200
A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god
What is theocracy
300
manipulating a congressional district to recieve certian results
What is gerrymandering?
300
Where is nanavut?
Northern Canada
300
A congressional district with a majority of minority occupants.
What is a Minority-Majority District?
300
Is the Heartland theory from the German School of Geopolitics, or the American/British school of geopolitics. American/British School of geopolitics
American/British School of geopolitics
300
The Western front of the old U.S.S.R.
What is the Iron Curtain
400
a belief that it was an americans duty to settle the west
What is manifest destiny?
400
name all the countries that aren't part of the U.N.
Taiwan, Greenland,Western Sahara, French Guiana
400
An agreed-upon boundary that follows a physical landscape feature.
What is a physical-political boundary?
400
What is Shari'a Law?
A muslim Code of Laws What is Shari'a Law?
400
The coastal water and sea bed around a country's shores, to which it claims exclusive rights for fishing, oil exploration, etc.
What is an Exclusive Economic Zone
500
the doctrine that irredenta (a region that is related ethnically or historically to one country but is controlled politically by another) should be controlled by the country to which they are ethnically or historically related (a region that is related ethnically or historically to one country but is controlled politically by another)
What is irredentism?
500
Name 3 members of the EU that don't use the Euro Sweden,Estonia,Latvia,Lithuania,Poland,Czech Republic,Slovakia,Hungary,Romania,Bulgaria,Denmark,United Kingdom
Sweden,Estonia,Latvia,Lithuania,Poland,Czech Republic,Slovakia,Hungary,Romania,Bulgaria,Denmark,United Kingdom
500
Fill in the blanks for Mackinder's Heartland theory a. Who rules ____ ______ commands the Heartland b. Who rules the Heartland commands the _____ ______ c. Who rules the World Island commands the _____
a. East Europe b. World Island c. World
500
What AP Human Geo topic does Georges Pierre Seurat's painting Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte relate to? Hint: starts with the letter S.
Scale
500
Reason of justification for exsisting
What does raison d'être mean
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