GEO 207 WEEK 6 Knowledge Check
Global Geography
Match the Key Term with the proper definition
1. Marchland 1. A political boundary that existed before the cultural landscape emerged and stayed in place while people moved in to occupy the surrounding area.
2. Intervening opportunity 2. One of the burgeoning beehive countries of the western Pacific Rim. Following Japan's route since 1945, these countries have experienced significant modernization, industrialization, and Western-style economic growth since 1980.
3. Demographic transition model 3. Manufacturing and export center within China, created in the 1980s to attract foreign investment and technology transfers.
4. Special Economic Zones 4. A political boundary that has ceased to function, but the imprint of which can still be detected on the cultural landscape.
5. Economic tiger 5. In trade or migration flows, the presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away.
6. Domino theory 6. Friedrich Ratzel's theory of state development that conceptualized the state as a biological organism whose life--from birth through maturation to eventual senility and collapse--mirrors that of any living thing.
7. Superimposed boundary 7. Multi-stage model, based on Western Europe's experience, of changes in population growth exhibited by countries undergoing industrialization.
8. Organic theory 8. A political boundary emplaced by powerful outsiders on a developed human landscape. Usually ignores preexisting cultural-spatial patterns, such as the border that still divides North and South Korea.
9. Antecedent boundary 9. The belief that political destabilization in one state can result in the collapse of order in a neighboring state, triggering a chain of events that, in turn, can affect a series of contiguous states.
10. Relict boundary 10. An area or frontier of uncertain boundaries that is subject to various national claims and an unstable political history.
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