Chapter 9

Question 1

Relic Boundary

Answer 1

A boundary that no longer exists but still holds some kind of significance

Question 2

Relic Boundary Example

Answer 2

Berlin wall because it used to separate East and West Germany, but was taken down. There are still economic differences between east/west germany

Question 3

Superimposed Boundary

Answer 3

A boundary drawn by an outside force and tend to ignore existing boundaries of social, cultural, or ethnic differences

Question 4

Superimposed Boundary Example

Answer 4

The Berlin Conference/Africa because they drew the lines how they wanted it to be, which grouped together groups that shouldn’t have been and separated groups as well, which lead to heavy conflict.

Question 5

The Berlin Wall

Answer 5

Separated East/West Germany, heavily guarded

Question 6

The Berlin Confrence

Answer 6

A conference in which the European powers divided up Africa into colonies for trade

Question 7

Antecedent Boundary

Answer 7

A boundary drawn before many people live in an area and establish a cultural landscape

Question 8

Antecedent Boundary Example

Answer 8

USA and Canada which were separated by a line that was drawn along a latitude before people settled there

Question 9

Geometric Boundary

Answer 9

A boundary that follows a straight line, often latitude or longitude lines.

Question 10

Geometric Boundaries Can Be…

Answer 10

Superimposed or Antecedent

Question 11

Geometric Boundary Example

Answer 11

USA and Canada, Parts of North Africa

Question 12

Subsequent Boundary

Answer 12

A boundary drawn where people have already settled

Question 13

Subsequent Boundary Example

Answer 13

Much of Europe because the countries are divided up by their similarities in culture

Question 14

Consequent Boundary

Answer 14

A kind of subsequent boundary that is drawn to accommodate existing differences among people such as language, religion, ethnicity

Question 15

Consequent Boundary Example

Answer 15

Balkans after Yugoslavia, Nunavut in Canada

Question 16

Canadian Nunavut

Answer 16

An artic place of Canada governed solely by the Inuit

Question 17

Sense of Place

Answer 17

The emotions that attaches a person to an area based on their experiences

Question 18

Defined Boundary

Answer 18

Explicitly stating in a legal document

Question 19

Delimited Boundaries

Answer 19

Drawing on a map

Question 20

Demarcated Boundaries

Answer 20

Identified by physical markers or barriers

Question 21

Demarcated Boundary Example

Answer 21

Town limits sign, walls or fences placed on a border

Question 22

Demilitarized Zone

Answer 22

An area in which treaties or agreements between nations, military powers that forbid military installations, activities, or personnel

Question 23

Self-Determination

Answer 23

The right of all people to choose their own political status

Question 24

Nation-State

Answer 24

A state that is 100% ethnically the same

Question 25

Multistate Nation

Answer 25

Consists of people who share a cultural or ethnic background but live in more country

Question 26

Irredentism

Answer 26

A policy attempting to acquire territories in neighboring states inhabited by people in the same nation

Question 27

Multi-Ethnic States

Answer 27

States with more than ethnicity

Question 28

Multi-National States

Answer 28

States with more ethnicity, and these ethnicities have feelings of self-determination

Question 29

Stateless Nation

Answer 29

People united by culture, language, history, and tradition but not possessing a state

Question 30

Territoriality

Answer 30

Attempt by an individual or group to affect, influence, or control people, or phenomena or relationships by delimiting or asserting control over a geographic

Question 31

Colonialism

Answer 31

The practice of claiming and dominating overseas territories

Question 32

Organic Theory

Answer 32

Political entities, such as countries, behave in a way similar to living organisms. They need food the survive, with their food being more land

Question 33

Neocolonialism

Answer 33

The use of economic, political, cultural, or other pressures to control or influence other countries today

Question 34

Choke Point

Answer 34

A narrow, strategic passageway to another place that is difficult to pass

Question 35

Administered Boundary

Answer 35

Manage the operations around the border

Question 36

Physical Boundary

Answer 36

A physical geographic boundary

Question 37

Median-Line Principal

Answer 37

If possible, a boundary down the middle of the water

Question 38

Territorial seas

Answer 38

12 nautical miles, states have complete sovereignty (underwater, overwater and in air) but must allow non-stop direct passage

Question 39

Exclusive Economic Zone

Answer 39

200 nautical miles, states do not have full sovereignty, but have sole access to resources in water and seafloor to generate energy

Question 40

Definitional Dispute

Answer 40

Where is the line?

Question 41

Allocation Dispute

Answer 41

Problems over resources along the border area

Question 42

Operational Dispute

Answer 42

What are policies that govern the border?