Human Geography Vocab unit 4.1

Vertical planes/imaginary lines between 2 states that cuts through the rocks below and airspace above the surface

• Physical Boundary

• Chokepoint

• Boundaries

• Geometric Boundaries

The right of a state to defend sovereign territory against incursion from other states.

• Territorial Integrity

• Territoriality

• Balkanization

• Delimitation

To incorporate territory into an existing political unit such as a country, state, county or city

• Buffer State

• Perforation State

• Consequent Boundaries

• Annexation

Nation that doesn't have a state

• Nation-states

• Stateless Nation

• Fragmented State

• Sovereignty

A geographic feature such as a valley or waterway narrowing causing a decrease in transportation (economic or military) making its way through

• Prorupted State

• Consequent Boundaries

• Exclave

• Chokepoint

Boundary made before area becomes substantially populated

• Antecedent Boundary

• Consequent Boundaries

• Geometric Boundaries

• Relic Boundaries

In political geography, a country's or more local community's sense of property and attachment toward its territory, as expressed by its determination to keep it inviolable and strongly defended

• Nationalism

• Territoriality

• Territorial Integrity

• Colonialism

A boundary made through colonization without regard to prior ethnic/cultural patterns (e.g. borders of most African countries)

• Subsequent Boundaries

• Relic Boundaries

• Superimposed Boundaries

• Consequent Boundaries

• Geometric Boundaries

Used to describe the process of fragmentation or division of a region or state into smaller regions or states that are often hostile or uncooperative with one another; often due to conflicts among ethnicities

• Balkanization

• Annexation

• Semi-autonomous Regions

• Nationalism

Drawn boundaries made with regard to ethnic differences (e.g. border between China and Vietnam)

• Superimposed Boundaries

• Consequent Boundaries

• Physical Boundaries

• Subsequent Boundaries