Unit 4 Vocabulary Review APHG

Where the boundary of a border is maintained in some format

• demarcated

• administered

• defined

• delimited

Narrow waterways where a large portion of global goods pass through each day

• Chokepoint

• Canal

• Consequent

• Subsequent

When physical markers (sign, wall, fence) are placed along a designated border or boundary

• administered

• defined

• demarcated

• delimited

Boundaries that were in place before the cultural landscape developed. Usually physical features

• consequent

• subsequent

• superimposed

• antecedent

When power is taken from a central government and shared with local governments or groups to prevent balkanization

• federal state

• unitary state

• devolution

• chokepoint

Boundaries formed in order to separate groups based on ethnicity, language, religion, or economic conditions

• antecedent

• consequent

• subsequent

• geometric

When a group attempts to remove another ethnicity from an area. Violence is used in the process and can spiral into genocide at times.

• ethnic cleansing

• balkanization

• devolution

• genocide

The boundary from a state’s shoreline to 200 nautical miles out to sea; that state gets exclusive fishing and extracting rights in that zone

• territorial waters

• exclusive economic zone

• international waters

• contiguous zone

In creating an official border, this is the phase where the boundary is  negotiated then legally described in a treaty or homeowners property line

• demarcated

• delimited

• administered

• defined

An economic supranational organization between several European countries. They have their own passport and currency and a free trade agreement

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• African Union

• European Union

• USMCA