Political geography
Synonymous with a country includes 5 distinct characteristics. No, it is not the same as Texas, or California.
What is a State?
Human imprint on the environment. Language, Architecture, Religious symbols, Land -use, urbanization etc.
What is cultural landscape?
The largest state in the western hemisphere. Includes Arctic tundras in the north and 90% of its population is clustered within 100 miles of the U.S. border.
What is Canada?
Berlin Conference 1884-85 is also known as this. European empires looking to extend its influence on This large continent.
What is the scramble for Africa?
software used to create layers of geographic information (vegitation, buildings, annexed land)
Number of modern countries around the time of independence for the United States (1776)?
What is 35?
Historical imprint from successive culture on the environment over time.
What is sequent occupancy?
A sovereign Nation-state, this South American country has the largest oil reserves in the world. Borders Columbia, Brazil and Guyana with the Caribbean sea to the north.
What is Venezuela?
What is neocolonialism?
Theory behind population and food production is called this.
What is Malthusian theory?
Between 1950 and 1971 this government was recognized by the international community as a state; but has since been considered a "renegade province" by China and other countries which puts its status as a state in question.
What is Taiwan?
This term is used when a country claims territory on another state or area.
What is colonialism?
Identify at least 2 Eastern European countries which were part of former Yugoslovia but became their own independent nation-states after the balkanization process.
What is Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzgovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro?
Conflict between cultural forces and political forces leads to this fragmentation of nation-states. Examples include religious conflicts in Israel, and Pakistan. ideological conflicts in Eastern Europe, Vietnam and Korea.
What are shatterbelts?
The amount of resources per people is called this.
What is carrying capacity?
Yugoslavia with diverse nations led to this process. A desire for self-determination, and the collapse of communism in 1991 broke these multi-nation states apart.
What is the Balkanization?
The process of a dominant language mixed with an indigenous language.Examples: French-creole, Jamaican creole (patois). Distinct linguistics from the dominant language.
What is creolization?
Country in South Asia with the largest population in the world. Predominant religion is Hindu and language spoken is Hindi, but English is the official state language. Other languages spoken Bengali, Urdu, and Punjabi.
What is India?
Strait of Hormuz, Strait of Bospurus, Suez canal, all strategic passages for global commerce, energy, and geopolitical relations. This term is used when those areas are leveraged by governing regional powers negatively impacting global trade.
What are chokepoints?
The feeling that the world is getting smaller because of improvements to transportation and communication.
What is time-space compression?
Exerting influence (political and economic) onto smaller nations is an example of this term. A country's desire to become an extensive empire.
What is imperialism?
2 theories behind human-environmental interactions. They differ in the degree to which environment impacts human activities.
What is environmental determinism and possibilism?
When a country allows centralized power to broken up into smaller governments.
What is devolution?
Connecting the people, their economy and their culture to the land is known as this. Defense of the territory, delimiting the boundaries with borders and walls.
What is territoriality?