AP Human Geography Unit 4 Part B(12/8) Flashcards

8160381295	Institutions	Complex social organizations such as governments, economies, and education systems	0
8160381296	Integration	Allows separate systems to communicate directly with each other.	1
8160381297	Internal Boundaries	boundaries that divide the interiors of a country into sections	2
8160381298	Irredentism	The policy of a state wishing to incorporate within itself territory inhabited by people who have ethnic or linguistic links with the country but that lies within a neighboring state.	3
8160381299	Landlocked States	state surrounded by other land with no direct outlet to the sea	4
8160381300	Market Economy	Economic decisions are made by individuals or the open market.	5
8160381301	Marketization	The state's recreation of a market in which property, labor, goods, and services can all function in a competitive environment to determine their value.	6
8160381302	Median-Line Principle	water boundaries are set in the middle of the water	7
8160381303	Microstate	A state or territory that is small in both size and population.	8
8160381304	Minority Districting	rearranging districts to allow a minority representative to be elected	9
8160381305	Majority Districting	area in which the majority of the constituents in the district are racial or ethnic minorities. used to sway electoral votes	10
8160381306	Mixed Economy	A combination of a command and market economy	11
8160381307	Monetary Policy	Government policy that attempts to manage the economy by controlling the money supply and interest rates.	12
8160381308	Multicore State	a state that has more than one dominant region in terms of economics or politics	13
8160381309	Nationalism	A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country	14
8160381310	Nation-State	A country who's population share a common identity.	15
8160381311	Perforated States	a state that completely surrounds another	16
8160381312	Physical Boundary	boundary defined by a physical land mark like a river or a lake	17
8160381313	Political Culture	the collection of political beliefs, values, practices, and institutions that the governments is based on	18
8160381314	Politicization of Religion	the use of religious principles to promote political ends or vice versa	19
8160381315	Political Geography	Study of the political organization of the planet	20
8160381316	Primate City	The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement.	21
8160381317	Privatization	To change from government or public ownership or control to private ownership or control.	22
8160381318	Friedrich Ratzel	father of modern political geography, he theorized that the state compares to a living biological organism	23
8160381319	Relative Location	The position of a place in relation to another place	24
8160381320	Rimland Theory	Nicholas Spykman's theory that the domination of the coastal fringes of Eurasia would provided the base for world conquest.	25
8160381321	Security Council	Five permanent members( US, UK, France, China, Russia) with veto power in the UN. Promised to carry out UN decisions with their own forces.	26
8160381322	Separatist Movement	refers to the social movements for a particular group of people to separate from a dominant political institution under which they suffer	27
8160381323	Shatter Belts	zones of great cultural complexity containing many small cultural groups who find refuge in the isolation created by rough terrain	28
8160381324	Sovereignty	Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states.	29
8160381325	Spatial Force	Spatially, devolutionary events most often occur on the margins of the state. Increases with distance	30
8160381326	Stateless Nation	A nation that is not represented by a state.	31
8160381327	State	A politically organized territory that is administered by a sovereign government and is recognized by the international community.	32
8160381328	Supranational Organization	Organization of three or more states to promote shared objectives.	33
8160381329	Territorial Morphology	describes the shapes, sizes, and relative locations of states	34
8160381330	Territoriality	efforts to control pieces of the earth's surface for political and social ends	35
8160381331	Unitary State	A state in which most political power exists at the national level, with limited local authority.	36
8160381332	Three pillars	Informal term denoting the main areas in which the EU has worked since the Maastricht Treaty.(Economy, Justice, foreign/security policy)	37
8160381333	"Third Wave" Of Democratization	refers to the third major surge of democracy in history; characterized by the defeat of dictatorial or totalitarian rulers from South America to Eastern Europe to some parts of Africa	38
8160381334	politics	All about power;who, how, and challenges to keep	39
8160381335	Nation	A group of people that is bound together by a common political identity	40
8160381336	Prorupted states	an otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension	41