Name: ___________________________________________
Chapter
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Period: ________
State Organization and Evolution
Date: _________
Political Geography 2
Note: all of the following information in addition to your reading is important.
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Devolution
• Define: devolution - ________________________________________________
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• Discuss ONE historic ethnocultural devolutionary movement that occurred
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• Discuss ONE current ethnocultural devolutionary movement - _____________
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• Describe THREE devolutionary examples brought on through economic
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• Discuss how territorial influences affect devolutionary pressures, and give
TWO examples ___________________________________
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Electoral Geography
• Define: electoral geography - ___________________________________________
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• Define: territorial representation - ______________________________________
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• Describe the process of reapportionment (and splitting votes) - _____________
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Electoral Geography (continued)
• Define: majority-minority districts - _____________________________________
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• Describe gerrymandering - ____________________________________________
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Territorial Morphology
• ____________ – distance from
geometric center is similar
• ____________ – a.k.a. attenuated
• ____________ – two or more separate
pieces
• ____________ – territory completely
surrounds that of another state
• ____________ – a.k.a. prorupt; have a
protruded area that extends from a
more compact core
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Boundary Establishment and Disputes
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• Define: boundary - ________________________________________________________________
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• Describe the process of establishing a boundary (using define, delimit,
demarcate, and administrate) - _________________________________________
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• Define: geometric boundary, and give ONE example - ____________________
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• Define: physical-political boundary, and give ONE example - ______________
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• Define: antecedent boundary, and give ONE example - ____________________
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• Define: subsequent boundary, and give ONE example - ___________________
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• Define: superimposed boundary, and give ONE example - ________________
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• Define: relict boundary, and give ONE example - _________________________
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• Define definitional boundary dispute, and give ONE example - ____________
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• Define locational boundary dispute, and give ONE example - _____________
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• Define operational boundary dispute, and give ONE example - ____________
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• Define allocational boundary dispute, and give ONE example - ____________
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