Political Geography Unit 4

What is political geography?

• The study of the political organization of the planet

• The process of describing the shape, size and location of states

• Study of the impacts of human culture on society and the environment

• What unit is this again?

How are countries divided?

• Physical Boundaries, and Cultural Boundaries

• Physical Boundaries only

• Cultural Boundaries only

• Physical Boundaries, Cultural Boundaries, and Personal Boundaries

What state shape is Poland?

• Compact

• Elongated

• Prorupted

• Fragmented

What state shape is Croatia?

• Prorupted

• Compact

• Perforated

• Fragmented

What state shape is the US?

• Fragmented

• Compact

• Elongated

• Prorupted

What state shape is South Africa?

• Perforated

• Prorupted

• Elongated

• Compact

What state shape is Chile?

• Elongated

• Prorupted

• Compact

• Fragmented

What is a superimposed boundary?

• Boundaries forced upon an existing cultural landscape by a colonial or political power without regard for cultural barriers

• Boundaries forced upon a new landscape without regard for physical boundaries

• The study of the political organization (borders) of the planet

• Sick PhotoShop skills

What is the Berlin Conference?

• Meeting of European countries to divide up African among themselves

• Meeting of African countries to divide up Europe among themselves

• Meeting after WWI that divided up the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ottoman Empire and created Yugoslavia

• The thing at that place where that other thing happened

What was the Treaty of Versailles?

• Meeting after WWI that divided up the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ottoman Empire and created Yugoslavia

• Meeting of European Countries to divide up Africa among themselves

• Meeting of African Countries to divide up Europe among themselves

• That thing that made those people not have WWII anymore