Vocab 1
Location
Political Geo
Misc.
Vocab 2
100
a racial segregation/prejudice in south africa
What is apartheid?
100
Berlin
where did the berlin conference take place
100
The movement of power form the cnetral government to regional movements within the state.
What is Devolution
100
Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Northern Ireland, UK, Iceland, Spain, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland.
Name 3 core countries
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
Turkey,Iran,Azerbaijan,Syria,Iraq,Armenia
Name 2 countries that the nation Kurdistan spans
200
A state with more than one nation inside its borders.
What is a Multinational State?
200
Great britain, France, Spain, Portugal, netherlands, Belgium, Italy, turkey, Russia, Japan, Denmark
Name 3 countries that colonized between 1550 and 1950
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
Northern Canada
Where is nanavut?
300
A congressional district with a majority of minority occupants.
What is a Minority-Majority District?
300
American/British School of geopolitics
Is the Heartland theory from the German School of Geopolitics, or the 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
Taiwan, Greenland,Western Sahara, French Guiana
name all the countries that aren't part of the U.N.
400
An agreed-upon boundary that follows a physical landscape feature.
What is a physical-political boundary?
400
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
Sweden,Estonia,Latvia,Lithuania,Poland,Czech Republic,Slovakia,Hungary,Romania,Bulgaria,Denmark,United Kingdom
Name 3 members of the EU that don't use the Euro
500
a. East Europe b. World Island c. World
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 _____
500
Scale.
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.
500
Reason of justification for exsisting
What does raison d'ĂȘtre mean