AP Human Geography
Political Organization of Space
Vocab List
2014
Instructions to the student: Students, you are to complete the included terms in this
fashion in order to receive full credit:
a) Define each term
b) Apply each term or give an example from your text relevant to the term
c) State the page where the definition and the example were found
d) Draw a diagram if necessary to facilitate your understanding of the material
e) Submit work on specified date
f) ** A general consideration** the more work you put into these the better off
you will be. These are designed to be your everyday study material
1. Administration as a Centripetal Force
2. Antarctica
3. Apartheid
4. Asymmetric federalism
5. Balkanization
6. Boundaries and Political Stability in Africa
7. Boundary Disputes
8. Centrifugal Forces
9. Centripetal Forces
10. Challenges to the Modern State
11. Colonialism
12. Confederation
13. Conference of Berlin
14. Cores and Capitals
15. Country shapes
16. Devolution
17. Domino theory
18. East/West Divide
19. Electoral College
20. Electoral Geography
21. European union
22. Evolution of the State
23. Exclaves, Enclaves and Perforated States
24. Federalism
25. Forward Capitals
26. Frontier
27. Geopolitics
28. Heartland v. Rimland Theory
29. Imperialism
30. International Agreements
31. Iron Curtain
32. Irredentism
33. Landlocked states
34. Microstates
35. Military alliances
36. Nations
37. Nationalism as a Centrifugal Force
38. Nationalism as a Centripetal Force
39. NAFTA
40. Physical v. geometric state boundaries
41. Political geography
42. Reapportionment
43. Redistricting
44. Regional alliances
45. Relic boundaries
46. Separatism
47. State
48. State shapes: examples
49. States’ rights
50. Subsequent v. antecedent boundaries
51. Supranationalism
52. Territorial organization
53. Territoriality
54. Terrorism
55. Theocracies
56. Transportation and communication as a centripetal force
57. Unifying institutions as a centripetal force
58. Unitary states
59. United Nations Law of the Seas