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 What is meant by ethnocentrism?  The belief that one’s own ethnic group is superior to all others.

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2  What is meant by ethnocentrism?

3  The belief that one’s own ethnic group is superior to all others

4  What is an ethnic enclave?

5  A small area of cites that are inhabited by a minority cultural group

6  What is meant by the cultural landscape?

7  Made up of the structures placed on the physical landscape by human activities

8  How does the terms nation and state differ?

9  A nation is a unified group of people with a common culture.  A state is a political unit

10 Forward capital  A forward capital is a symbolically relocated capital city usually because of either economic or strategic reasons. A forward capital is sometimes used to integrate outlying parts of a country into the state. An example would be Brasília

11  What are antecedent boundaries?

12  Boundaries placed before the cultural landscape developed

13  What are subsequent boundaries?

14  Boundaries drawn after the cultural landscape is in place

15  What are superimposed boundaries?

16  Boundaries that are put into place with little regard to cultural practices/ethnicities

17  What are relic boundaries?

18  Old boundaries that are no longer used between countries

19  What is irredentism?

20  The situation that arises when an ethnic group supports and seeks to reunite with its ethnic population in a neighboring country.

21  Describe the heartland-rimland theory

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23  How do centripetal forces and centrifugal forces differ?

24  Centripetal forces work to unite a country  Centrifugal forces work to divide a country

25  What does the process of devolution entail?

26  The central government giving the minority separatists group some of its demands to keep the peace

27  What are the laws of the sea?

28 1. exclusive fishing rights and sovereignty over a territorial sea of up to 12 nautical miles from its coast 2. limited jurisdiction over a territorial sea up to 24 nautical miles from its coast 3. An Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of up to 200 nautical miles off its coast for natural resource exploration and exploitation

29  What is the First Agricultural Revolution referring to?

30  The Neolithic revolution; the transition from hunter-gather societies to agrarian societies

31  What is the Second agricultural revolution referring to?

32  Starting the 17 th century in Europe and N. America. This is when more technology is infused into agriculture due to the industrial revolution

33  What does an agribusiness refer to?

34  A commercial enterprise that emphasizes single crops and profits

35  What does the green revolution refer to?

36  Began in the mid-1970s when scientists developed hybrid higher-yield seeds and new fertilizers

37  What is shifting agriculture?

38  Growing crops in different fields on a rotating basis  Used a lot in subsistence agriculture

39  Swidden agriculture is the same thing as slash-and-burn agriculture

40  Discuss Von Thünen’s agricultural land- use model

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