AP Human Geography Unit 4- Exam Questions with Verified Solutions Latest Version (Already Passed
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AP Human Geography Unit 4- Exam Questions with Verified Solutions Latest Version (Already Passed
Allocational boundary - Answers A boundary dispute that involves conflicting claims to the natural resources of a border region.
Allocational boundary dispute (example) - Answers Problem occurs if...
AP Human Geography Unit 4- Exam Questions with Verified Solutions Latest Version 2024-2025
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Allocational boundary - Answers A boundary dispute that involves conflicting claims to the natural
resources of a border region.
Allocational boundary dispute (example) - Answers Problem occurs if there is a rich natural resource
straddling the border. Who gets what share? 50-50. Example : there is a huge oilfield beneath the
Iraq/Kuwaiti border. How do you divide up the drilling rights?
Annexation - Answers The formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or
occupation
Antecedent boundaries - Answers A boundary that existed before the cultural landscape emerged and
stayed in place while people moved in to occupy the surrounding area
(created before region was inhabited)
Asia-Pacific Economic Council (APEC) - Answers A forum for 21 Pacific Rim countries (styled "Member
Economies") that seeks to promote free trade and economic cooperation throughout the Asia-Pacific
region.
BALKANIZATION - Answers 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. (fighting because of ethnic
groups)
Benelux - Answers A collective name for Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, esp. with reference
to their economic union
Berlin Conference - Answers The Berlin Conference of 1884-85 regulated European colonization and
trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period, and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as
an imperial power
Bipolar world - Answers Places having two opposite or contradictory ideas or natures
Boundary and 4 steps - Answers Invisible line that marks the extent of a states territory
1. Define
2. Delimit (draw)
3. Demarcate
, 4. Administrate
Buffer state - Answers A small neutral state between two rival powers
Centripetal forces - Answers A force that brings people towards the center (bring everyone together)
Centrifugal forces - Answers A force that moves people away from a center (moves everyone apart)
CIS: Commonwealth of Independent States - Answers An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet
Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991
Clash of Civilizations - Answers A book written by Samuel Huntington. Says that the world has moved on,
in the cold war it was state verses state, now its not like that, its culture verses culture, Islam versus
Christians, cultural struggle rather than ideological struggle
Cold War - Answers The state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the
US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990
Colonialism - Answers Attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political,
economic, and cultural principles in another territory (stronger country takes over weaker country)
Compact state - Answers 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 (distance from center to any
boundary is very similar)
Confederation - Answers The act of forming an alliance league
Core - Answers The center of something
periphery - Answers Outer limits or edge of an area or object
semi-periphery - Answers the industrializing, mostly capitalist countries which are positioned between
the periphery and core countries
Darfur - Answers A region in the west of Sudan, an independent kingdom until 1874. In 2003 a rebellion
against the Sudanese government began, and many thousands died or were displaced in the subsequent
conflict
Definitional boundary dispute - Answers Argument or lack of clarity about the wording of the treaty that
establishes the boundary
Devolution - Answers The process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or
vitality or essential quality
Splitting apart due to centrifugal force
Domino Theory - Answers The political theory that if one nation comes under Communist control then
neighboring nations will also come under Communist control
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