Boundaries and Borders
This type of boundary is based on physical features like rivers or mountains.
What is a natural/physical boundary?
This organization includes most countries in the world and works toward international peace and cooperation.
What is the United Nations (UN)?
A state shape that is long and narrow, such as Chile.
What is an elongated state?
The revolution when humans transitioned from hunting and gathering to farming.
What is the First Agricultural Revolution (Neolithic Revolution)?
This model explains agricultural land use in concentric rings around a market center.
What is the Von Thünen Model?
This boundary was drawn after a population settled the area, often to accommodate cultural differences.
What is a subsequent boundary?
A supranational organization that promotes free trade among North American countries.
What is USMCA (formerly NAFTA)?
A state that completely surrounds another, like South Africa and Lesotho.
What is a perforated state?
The Agricultural Revolution associated with mechanization and crop rotation in Europe.
What is the Second Agricultural Revolution?
Crops like dairy are found closest to the market in this model due to this factor.
What is perishability?
A border dispute over the use of a shared resource like water or oil.
What is an allocational boundary dispute?
This economic alliance of European countries uses a common currency and promotes regional integration.
What is the European Union (EU)?
The theory that states must expand to survive, similar to a living organism.
What is the Organic Theory?
This revolution introduced GMOs, synthetic fertilizers, and increased food production globally.
What is the Third Agricultural Revolution (Green Revolution)?
In this form of agriculture, farmers grow enough food to support themselves and their families.
What is subsistence agriculture?
The process of redrawing political boundaries based on population changes.
What is redistricting?
A downside of supranationalism where member states may lose sovereignty.
What is the sacrifice of state autonomy?
When a state breaks into smaller, ethnically distinct regions.
What is Balkanization?
This agricultural innovation involves the genetic alteration of crops for increased yield.
What are GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms)?
A practice where farmers clear land, farm it for a few years, then move to a new area.
What is shifting cultivation?
The boundary type drawn by outside powers without regard to existing cultural patterns.
What is a superimposed boundary?
An example of a supranational organization primarily focused on the control and stabilization of oil prices.
What is OPEC?
A region characterized by political instability due to conflicting external pressures.
What is a shatterbelt?
The theory that population growth spurs agricultural innovation.
What is the Boserupian Theory?
A large-scale agricultural system often found in LDCs, producing cash crops like sugar or coffee.
What is plantation agriculture?