AP Human Geography Review Terms
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Human Geography [1]
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Unit 7 1. Balkanization: The political term used when referring to the fragmentation or breakup of a region or country into smaller regions or countries. The term comes from the Balkan wars, where the country of Yugoslavia was broken up in to six countries between 1989 and 1992. 2. Boundary Types: -Geometric: straight-line, unrelated to physical or cultural landscape, lat & long (US/Canada) -Physical-political: (natural-political) ? conform to physiologic features (Rio Grande: US/Mexico; Pyrenees: Spain/France) -Cultural-political: mark breaks in the human landscape (Armenia/Azerbaijan) -Antecedent: existed before the cultural landscape emerged (e.g., Malaysia/Indonesia) -Subsequent: developed contemporaneously with the evolution of the cultural landscape (e.g., US/Mexico)