unit 4 vocabulary human geography

administer

•  to explicitly state in legally binding documentation such as a treaty where boundaries are located, using reference points such as natural features/lines of latitude and longitude

• to manage the way borders are maintained and how goods and people cross them

• to draw boundaries on a map, in accordance with a legal agreement

• the practice of claiming and dominating overseas territories

Antecedent boundary

• a border established before an area becomes heavily settled

• the right of a government to control and determine what happens within its borders

• a set of people, called electors, who are chosen to elect the president and vice president of the US

• the process by which a state attacks an ethnic group and tries to eliminate it through expulsion, imprisonment, or killing

autonomous

• to place physical objects such as stones, pillars, walls, or fences to indicate where a boundary exists

• attempts by a state to acquire territories in neighboring states inhabited by people of the same nation

• having the authority to govern territories independently of the national government; for example, by having a separate currency

• a region where states form, join, and break up because of ongoing, sometimes violent, conflict among parties and because they are caught between the interests of more powerful outside states

choke point

•  people who share a cultural or ethnic background but live in more than one country

• a cultural entity made up of people who have forged a common identity through a shared language, religion, heritage, or ethnicity- often all four of these

• a politically organized and recognized territory composed of a group of people who consider themselves to be a nation

• a narrow, strategic passageway to another place through which it is difficult to pass

colonialism

• a mathematically drawn boundary that typically follows lines of latitude and longitude or is a strait-line arc between two points

• the practice of claiming and dominating overseas territories

• people who share a cultural or ethnic background but live in more than one country

• the study of the ways in which the world is organized as a reflection of the power different groups hold over territory

consequent boundary

• a border established before an area becomes heavily settled

• a mathematically drawn boundary that typically follows lines of latitude and longitude or is a strait-line arc between two points

• a type of subsequent boundary that takes into account the differences that exist within a cultural landscape, separating groups that have distinct languages, religions, ethnicities, or other traits

• a border drawn in an area that has been settled and where cultural landscapes exist or are in the process of being established

define

• to draw boundaries on a map, in accordance with a legal agreement

• to explicitly state in legally binding documentation such as a treaty where boundaries are located, using reference points such as natural features/lines of latitude and longitude

• a country with various ethnicities and cultures living inside its borders

• people who share a cultural or ethnic background but live in more than one country

demarcate

• to place physical objects such as stones, pillars, walls, or fences to indicate where a boundary exists

• a border drawn over existing/accepted borders by an outside or conquering force

• the drawing of legislative boundaries to give one political party an advantage in elections

• the drawing of internal territorial and political boundaries

delimit

• the push to create an empire by exercising force or influence to control other nations/peoples

• the right of all people to choose their own political status

• the attempt to influence or control people and event by delimiting and asserting control over a geographic area; the connection of people, their culture, and their economic systems to the land

• to draw boundaries on a map, in accordance with a legal agreement

devolution

• the process that occurs when the central power in a state is broken up among regional authorities within its borders

• a border established before an area becomes heavily settled

• a country with various ethnicities and cultures living inside its borders

• the right of a government to control and determine what happens within its borders