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AP Geo Day 38
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Starter Draw the Demographic Transition Model (birth, death, growth)
Bonus: Do you think there are different types of borders? (Like between countries, how so?)
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Europe's most fortified border is in Africa - Vox
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Types of Boundaries
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Boundaries Natural/Physical boundaries Antecedent Subsequent
Superposed Relic Locational Operational Allocational Boundaries
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Natural/Physical Boundaries
boundaries created by physical features Ex: US/Mexico border
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Antecedent Boundary drawn before the cultural landscape develops Ex: 49th parallel (latitude) separates US and Canada
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Subsequent Develops with cultural landscape
Ex: Formation of the states as the U.S. expanded westward
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Ex: separation of North and South Korea
Superposed Boundaries drawn by outside forces Ex: African country lines drawn by Europeans, not by ethnic groups Ex: separation of North and South Korea Ex: Native American reservations
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Ex: East vs West Germany, difference in income, unemployment, etc.
Relic Boundaries that can still be seen, even after the political boundaries have changed Ex: East vs West Germany, difference in income, unemployment, etc.
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Ex: separation of North and South Korea
Locational Interpretation of the boundary is in question, dispute over demarcation of the boundary Demarcation: the action of creating a boundary or limit Ex: separation of North and South Korea Ex: Native American reservations
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Ex: American- Mexican border
Operational Dispute over the function of a boundary; how it is used Ex: American- Mexican border
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Mexicans and other Latinos
“The Border” Americans Mexicans and other Latinos
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Allocational Dispute over the extraction of resource.
Ex: Iraq and Kuwait Kuwait begins to extract oil from Iraqi side Spratly Islands Spratly Islands are not owned and are in a strategic waterway and have natural gas [each country gets 12 miles out at sea considered as their country, and 200 as an economic zone for trading/fishing/oil/etc] several countries could claim Spratly. But it is the Chinese who are trying to claim it with cellphone towers
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Nations in conflict over boundaries
South Sudan Israel/Palestine Pakistan/India Russia and Ukraine
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