Understanding Borders and Boundaries: A Geographical and Political Analysis, Quizzes of Political Geography

Download Understanding Borders and Boundaries: A Geographical and Political Analysis and more Quizzes Political Geography in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 What is a border? DEFINITION 1 An outer part of edge. Often defines a formal region. TERM 2 What is a boundary? DEFINITION 2 Something that fixes a limit or extent. TERM 3 How are borders determined? DEFINITION 3 Physical features and politics TERM 4 What are some problems that result when a physical feature is used as a border? DEFINITION 4 Oxbow lake formation. TERM 5 What three events resulted in the formation of the present-day US/Mexico Border? DEFINITION 5 Annexation of Texas 1845 Mexican session 1848 Gadson Purchase 1853 TERM 6 What events resulted in the formation of the present-day US/ Canada border? DEFINITION 6 Treaty of Paris 1787 Convention of 1818 Oregon Treaty of 1846 TERM 7 How might the 1844 boundary dispute between the US and Canada? DEFINITION 7 it would have had the border of the US/Canada at a different latitude than it is at right now. TERM 8 What does the Gravity Model explain? DEFINITION 8 Predicts the levels of spatial interaction between two places. TERM 9 What variables does the model use in its calculation of spatial interaction? DEFINITION 9 The amount of exchange of goods, people, and services between people. TERM 10 How might spatial interaction be affected by political, cultural, or physical phenomenom? DEFINITION 10 amount of spatial interaction is between two places in relation to the size and distance between them.