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