Chapter 9 Political Boundaries and Forms of Government

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Across
  1. 1. Boundaries that divide people based on things language and religion.
  2. 4. A boundary that preceded the development of the cultural landscape.
  3. 6. The water beyond any country's EEZ that is open to all states. (2 words)
  4. 7. The area of the sea that extends sovereignty 12 nautical miles from a coastline state.
  5. 9. The abbreviation for the 200 nautical miles exclusive economic zone.
  6. 13. _________ enclaves are states, territories, or parts of states or territories surrounded by another state.
  7. 16. Internal boundaries that divide a country's electorate into subnational regions. (2 words)
  8. 20. When a committee redraws district boundaries
  9. 22. Pockets of isolated national groups separated from their homeland.
  10. 24. Spatial thinking techniques and tools to analyze elections and voting patterns. (2 words)
  11. 25. Moving an area where an elected representative has support to an area where he or she does not have support.
  12. 28. A state that unites separate political entities into an overarching system that allows each entity to maintain some degree of sovereignty.
  13. 33. A boundary dispute when two or more parties disagree over how to interpret the legal documents or maps that identify the boundary.
  14. 35. A boundary that is drawn as a straight line or arc that does not follow any physical features.
  15. 36. A type of subsequent boundary that takes into account already existing cultural or physical landscapes.
  16. 37. Boundaries that are used at the subnational scale to divide countries into smaller units.
  17. 39. A boundary that is established by a legal document.
  18. 41. A boundary that has a checkpoint and requires legal documents such as passports and visas to cross.
  19. 42. A type of expansionism when one country seeks to annex territory where it has cultural ties to part of the population or historical claims to the land.
Down
  1. 2. The abbreviation for the United Nations Convention for the Law of the Seas.
  2. 3. Drawing political boundaries for political districts by the party in power to protect or increase its power.
  3. 5. A place between two very different and contentious regions.
  4. 8. A state where most all of the governing power is held by the national government.
  5. 10. A boundary identified by physical objects placed on the landscape.
  6. 11. People of a country who are eligible to vote.
  7. 12. The 24 nautical mile zone that gives coastal states customs, immigration, and sanitation rights.
  8. 13. Combining like-minded voters into one district to prevent them from affecting elections in other districts.
  9. 14. A count of the population every 10 years.
  10. 15. A boundary that is typically created while the cultural landscape is evolving and can change over time.
  11. 17. Diluting a minority-populated district with majority populations.
  12. 18. A boundary dispute over where a boundary should be.
  13. 19. Boundaries that are a natural barrier between two areas.
  14. 21. A boundary that is drawn on a map by a cartographer.
  15. 23. The process of legally adding territory to a city.
  16. 26. Changing the number of representatives granted to each state
  17. 27. a dispute over how a boundary functions. allocational A dispute over natural resources that lie near or across boundaries.
  18. 29. A boundary that has been abandoned for political purposes, but the evidence still exists on the landscape.
  19. 30. Redrawing two districts in order to force two elected representatives of the same party to run against each other.
  20. 31. A boundary that is drawn by outside powers and may ignore existing cultural patterns.
  21. 32. How a boundary is maintained and functions and what goods or people are allowed to cross.
  22. 34. A boundary that is unguarded and people can easily cross with little or no political interference.
  23. 38. A boundary that is heavily guarded and discourages crossing.
  24. 40. Dispersing a group into several districts to prevent a majority.