Key Political Geography Terms (Learning Objectives 4.5-4.8)

University:
Miami Dade College
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POS2112 | State and Local Government in America
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2022
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Hallie Randolph

Words from learning objective 4.54.8 Term Definition distribution of military and economic power that prevents any one nation from Balance of Power becoming too strong a line that separates one state from another. Both sides usually have claims as to international boundary where the boundary should be located and it is rare to find an unattended boundary between two sovereign states type of boundary within a state, for administrative purposes or to mark off cultural internal boundary regions boundary is created in agreement between two parties in a treaty or other legal defined boundary document delimited boundary is a line drawn on a map to show the limits of a space. A boundary demarcated (marked) by some visible means on the ground. Ex. wall demarcated boundary posts, fences, etc. demilitarized zone A zone from which military forces or operations or installations are prohibited maritime boundaries boundaries in the world's oceans. United Nations Convention of a list of rules and regulations created by the UN in regards to which state owns the the Law of the Seas (UNCLOS) land in the sea and how far that land extends into the ocean or sea international waters the areas of the sea that are not under the jurisdiction of any country. area extending up to 12 nautical miles from coast in which a state has sovereignty territorial seas (including exclusive fishing rights.) area in which resources found up to 200 nautical miles offshore belong exclusively Exclusive Economic Zone to the geographically bordering country generic term adopted by the Bureau of the Census to include the wide variety of voting district small polling areas, such as election districts, precincts, or wards, that State and local governments create for the purpose of administering elections The redrawing of congressional and other legislative district lines following the redistricting census, to accommodate population shifts and keep districts as equal as possible in population. the drawing of legislative district boundaries to benefit a party, group, or gerrymandering incumbent An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local federal state government. An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central unitary state government officials ethnic separatism when an ethnic group desires to separate from the larger group Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one ethnic cleansing in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region Acts of violence designed to promote a specific ideology or agenda by creating terrorism panic among an enemy population The policy of a state wishing to incorporate within itself territory inhabited by irredentism people who have ethnic or linguistic links with the country but that lies within a neighboring state.