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Ap Human Geography Unit 4 Questions & Detailed Answers 2024
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Ap Human Geography Unit 4Annexation - ANS the formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by
conquest or occupation
Allocational/resource boundary dispute - ANS Dispute over location and resources
Antarctica - ANS No one owns it
Antecedent boundary - ANS a boundary that existed before the cultural landscape
emerged and stayed in place while people moved in to occupy the surrounding
area...
Border landscape - ANS There are two types, exclusionary and inclusionary.
Exclusionary is meant to keep people out, such as the border between the U.S. and
Mexico. Inclusionary is meant to facilitate trade and movement, such as the U.S.-
Canada border
Buffer state - ANS a small neutral state between two rival powers
Capital - ANS Principle city in a state or country. The best place to locate a capital is
at the center of a country, so it is a somewhat equal distance from all parts of the
country.
, Centrifugal - ANS tending to move away from a center
Centripetal - ANS tending to move toward a center
City-state - ANS a city with political and economic control over the surrounding
countryside
Clevage Model - ANS A political-geographical model suggesting that persistent
regional patterns in voting behavior, sometimes leading to separatism, can usually
be explained in terms of tensions ptting urban against rural, core against
periphery, capitalists against workers, and power group against minority culture.
Colonialism - ANS exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one
Compact state - ANS a state that possesses a roughly circular, oval, or rectangular
territory in which the distance from the geometric center is relatively equal in all
directions
Confederation - ANS the act of forming an alliance or confederation
Conference of Berlin (1884) - ANS Regulated trade and colonization in Africa. It
formalized the scramble to gain colonies in Africa and set up boundaries for each
country's colonies.
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