Political Boundaries
A border created using lines of latitude and longitude
What is a geometric boundary?
A border between two or more different countries
What is an international boundary?
A sovereign state having a very small population or very little land area
What is a microstate?
An international organization comprising 27 European countries
What is the EU?
The act or idea that a person contains that their culture or nationality is better than any others
What is nationalism?
A boundary that existed before human settlement and the creation of cultural landscape
What is an antecedent boundary?
A boundary that exists within a country’s borders
What is an internal boundary?
a country that contains more than one ethnicity
What is a multinational state?
an alliance of 32 countries from Europe and North America
What is NATO?
the forces that bring people or a country together
What is a centripetal force?
A boundary that no longer exists but still impacts the cultural landscape
What is a relic boundary?
The process of redrawing districts after the census has occurred
What is redistricting?
an ethnic group or nation that does not possess its own sovereign state
What is a stateless nation?
An international organization founded in 1945 currently made up of 193 member states
What is the United Nations?
the forces that pull people or a country apart
What is a centrifugal force?
A boundary that was created to divide different ethnic groups, religions, or linguistic groups
What is a consequent boundary?
A geographic area organized together for the purpose of administering elections
What is a voting district?
Russia
The largest multinational state?
a continental body consisting of the 55 member states that make up the countries of the African Continent
What is the African Union?
The process of people of another culture loses their original culture in order to adapt to the new culture around them
What is assimilation?
A boundary that was created by a foreign state or group
What is a superimposed boundary?
The process of either bringing together like-minded voters into closer districts or spreading like-minded voters across multiple districts
What is gerrymandering?
Compact, elongated, prorupted, fragmented, perforated
What are the 5 basic shapes of states?
an international organization that provides financing, advice, and research to developing nations to help advance their economies
What is the World Bank?
The process of people of another culture learning and using the new culture around them in their everyday life, while still keeping their own culture
What is acculturation?