Boundaries
These are boundaries that run in straight lines corresponding to a specific latitude or longitude.
What are Geometric Boundaries?
The fence along the border of The U.S. and Mexico is an example of what type of boundary?
Demarcated
A stateless nation that extends over 6 states in the Middle East.
What is Kurdistan?
The borders of many countries in the Middle East were drawn by European powers after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in WWI, these borders would best be described as...
Superimposed
The imposition of the Superimposed boundaries onto the African continent by European powers in the late 1800's.
What is Berlin Conference
These are boundaries that are identified using legal documentation such as a treaty or deed.
What are defined boundaries?
This organization is focused on expanding the economic growth in Europe.
What is the European Union
The redrawing of legislative districts in the US to benefit the party in power.
What is Gerrymandering?
The border between the US and Canada along the 49th parallel is best described as both geometric because its a straight line and _________________ because it was drawn before settlements were established.
What is Balkan's or Yugoslavia
The idea that Germany should annex any land in Europe with German speakers is an example of...
What is Irredentism
This organization was founded to remove tariffs between products imported between the United States, Mexico, and Canada
What is NAFTA
The name of the stateless people found in Northern Spain.
Who are The Basque?
The boundary between East and West Berlin which no longer exists in physical or political form can still be seen in certain ways which reflects what type of boundary?
Relic Boundary.
A boundary that was drawn to due to changes is religious, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, etc. differences. Also known as an ethnographic boundary.
What are subsequent boundaries?
List the four zones established by UNCLOS in order from most control to least.
1. Territorial sea
2. Contiguous sea
3. Exclusive economic zone (EEZ)
4. High Seas
This organization supports the development of nations globally by loaning money at a fixed rate determined by the member states.
What is The International Monetary Fund? (IMF)
This region of Spain that borders the Mediterranean tried to hold a referendum on secession in 2017.
What is Catalonia?
A place of physical congestion between wider regions of movement and interaction.
What is Choke point
This northern portion of Canada is a prime example of a consequent boundary. (Spelling/Pronunciation must be close)
What is Nunavut? (noo-nuh-voot)
Vatican City, which is completely surrounded by the country of Italy, is an example of this concept.
What are Enclaves?
This organization was founded after WWI by US president Woodrow Wilson. Historians and Human Geographers often call this organization "the world's first Supranational Organization"
What is The League of Nations?
This was a series of anti-government protests, uprisings and armed rebellions that spread across much of North Africa and The Middle East mainly through the use of Social Media.
What is The Arab Spring?