Vocab (Unit 4)
What is a state?
A country, which is a political unit. (ex: U.S. is a state)
What is agriculture?
Cultivation of land and raising animals to produce goods.
What is a boundary that is composed of straight lines?
Geometric boundary
A farmer grows strictly only watermelon in the summer and potatoes in the winter, what type of agricultural practice is this?
Monocropping
Argentina is independent economically and politically. What type of nation is Argentina an example of?
Sovereign Nation
What is the ability to be economically and politically independent?
Sovereignty
What is an area's land features is called?
Topography (ex: mountains and hills)
Boundaries that are established before people settle into an area is an example of?
If land is farther from the CBD (central business district) then what effect does that have on the land's value?
The land value decreases as the distance from the CBD increases
When stronger countries control the economics, politics, and culture of weaker countries, this is called what?
Neocolonialism
An area of a country that has freedom from an external authority.
What is the bid-rent theory?
What is a superimposed boundary?
Boundaries that have been drawn in already existing areas settled by people.
Farmers in Vietnam carve mountainsides into growing plots, what is this an example of?
Terracing
Yugoslavia being broken into many different countries due to conflicts is an example of what?
Shatterbelt
The U.K. is made up of different states that are legally divided by borders, what is this an example of?
Multi-state nation
What is an agricultural practice where farmers expend a great deal of effort to produce as much as possible?
Intensive agriculture
What is a former boundary that once existed but no longer has an official purpose?
Relic boundary
A person living in the forest seeks out plants, fish, and small animals for protein. What type of person is this
Forager
The American Revolution was driven by the right of all people to choose their own political status, what is this called?
Self-Determination
The Spanish exerting force or influence to control South American countries in order to create an empire is an example of what?
Imperialism
A periphery country repays the bank by giving resources in exchange for forgiving the country's debt. What is this an example of?
Debt-for-nature swaps
African ethnic boundaries are drawn to separate the African countries by their traits. What is this an example of?
Consequent boundary
Which Agricultural Revolution was it when changes in farming practices occurred, leading to use of new techniques and tools.
2nd Agricultural Revolution
The border between North and South Korea where they form treaties is an example of what?
Demilitarized zone (DMZ)