AP Human Geography Flashcards: Defining Political Boundaries
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Geometric Boundary
This is one of the five main types of political boundaries, which are generated by legal, historical, and political processes.
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Geometric Boundary
This is one of the five main types of political boundaries, which are generated by legal, historical, and political processes.
Subsequent Boundary
This is one of the five main types of political boundaries used by geographers, generated by various processes.
Antecedent Boundary
This is one of the five main types of political boundaries used by geographers.
Relic Boundary
This is one of the five main types of political boundaries that geographers define.
What is a primary task for geographers in the study of political organization of space?
A primary task for geographers is to define the different types of political boundaries.
Superimposed Boundary
This is one of the five main types of political boundaries, often resulting from specific historical and political processes.
What types of processes generate political boundaries?
Political boundaries are generated by legal, historical, and political processes.
The creation of a country's borders through a peace treaty after a war is an example of which generating processes?
This would be an example of legal, historical, and political processes working together to generate a political boundary.
A boundary established by a court ruling, such as by the International Court of Justice, is a result of which type of process?
This is a result of a legal process, which is one of the three processes that generate political boundaries.
What are the five main types of political boundaries identified by geographers?
The five main types of political boundaries are antecedent, subsequent, superimposed, relic, and geometric.