4.4 And 4.5: Boundaries

Question 1

How are boundaries made?

Answer 1

Making boundaries involves defining, delimitation, demarcation, and administration

Question 2

What is defining in boundary creation?

Answer 2

When you decide where the boundary will be using legal documentation.

Question 3

What is delimitation in boundary creation?

Answer 3

Drawing where the boundary will be on a map

Question 4

What is demarcation in boundary creation?

Answer 4

Putting a boundary marker, a physical representation of where the boundary is (wall, stones, etc)

Question 5

What is administration in boundary creation?

Answer 5

Controlling a border, such as the flow of goods, or movement of people.

Question 6

how can we classify boundaries?

Answer 6

By how they are used, how they were created (genetic), and how they are shaped.

Question 7

What are the ways to genetically classify borders?

Answer 7

Antecedent, and subsequent. The two types of subsequent borders are superimposed and consequent.

Question 8

Antecedent boundaries

Answer 8

Boundaries that are drawn out before people start living in the area

Question 9

Subsequent boundaries

Answer 9

Any boundary created people settle into an area.

Question 10

Superimposed boundaries

Answer 10

A type of subsequent boundary in which an OUTSIDE POWER draws the boundary in no regard to the culture or group already there. Usually ends badly.

Question 11

Give an example of a superimposed boundary

Answer 11

The Berlin Conference. People in Europe divided up area based on resources they wanted to acquire. However this ended up causing many tribal disputes.

Question 12

Consequent Boundaries

Answer 12

A type of subsequent boundary in which the borders are made with consideration of the groups living there. This usually ends well, and eases tensions within and between the states.

Question 13

What are the ways to classify boundaries based off of how people use them?

Answer 13

Relic, militarized, and open (this one is obvious).

Question 14

Relic Boundaries

Answer 14

Relic boundaries are boundaries that are no longer formally used, but their effects still can be seen in the where people live, or how the physical landscape looks. For instance, the Great Wall of China.

Question 15

Militarized Border

Answer 15

A Border that is so heavily watched, and unregulated movement can cause an outbreak of war. An example of this are the borders of Korea.

Question 16

Geometric boundaries

Answer 16

Borders that are straight lines. They do not follow the physical terrain.

Question 17

Give some examples of physical boundaries

Answer 17

Desert boundaries, mountain boundaries, and water boundaries.

Question 18

Provide some characteristics of desert boundaries

Answer 18

They are difficult to cross, pretty good boundary (not the best though)

Question 19

Provide some characteristics of mountain boundaries

Answer 19

Efficient boundaries, most people won’t live there, and any enemies will have a hard time moving through

Question 20

Provide some characteristics of water boundaries

Answer 20

Water boundaries are less permanent because water levels change over time.

Question 21

Name the type of boundary disputes states may have.

Answer 21

Positional, territorial, resources, functional

Question 22

What is a positional dispute

Answer 22

Otherwise known as a definitional dispute, positional disputes are when states are in debate of WHERE to out the border. (Its position)

Question 23

What is a territorial dispute?

Answer 23

States are disputing about the ownership of land AROUND the border. (NOT WHERE TO PUT IT). This is also called a locational dispute.

Question 24

What happens in a rescources dispute

Answer 24

States debate on who gets the resources found on the border. AKA an allocation dispute.

Question 25

What happens in a functional dispute

Answer 25

States dispute on policies regarded the security of borders. Also known as an operational dispute.

Question 26

When was the law of the sea created, and who was it made by?

Answer 26

It was made in 1982 by the UN

Question 27

What does the law of the sea state?

Answer 27

12 nautical miles from the coast of a country is under it’s complete sovereignty. The state is responsible for sanitation and immigration 24 nautical miles from the coast. The EEZ is 200 nautical miles from the coast, and there the country can use the space for exploitation and exploration. Anything else is open water.

Question 28

Does the EEZ cause conflict?

Answer 28

Yes

Question 29

Explain the situation of China and Ocean Territory

Answer 29

China has done many things in order to gain more nautical control. One way they did this was drawing the 9 dash line, which disregards the Law Of The Sea, and they use it for historical reasons. They also are claiming the Spartly islands, and building their own islands in the sea. The goal is claim over the South China Sea. Thewhy is for fisheries, oil, and gas.

Question 30

What is an exclave

Answer 30

Exclaves are part of a state that is physically separate from the rest of itself, but politically together. For instance, Alaska is separated from the US, but is still a state.

Question 31

What is an enclave (political borders)

Answer 31

Enclaves are a state inside a state, but it’s politically separate.