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25 Cards in this Set
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Who are the main countries that are apart of the EU?
How many countries are there to date? |
France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands
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What country will the EU not let in?
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Turkey
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What are the goals/aims of the EU?
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Free movement of people, goods, services and capital
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What is an example of a preforated state?
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South Africa
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What is a huge world power like the WTO and UN called?
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Super-state
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Who is the only Superpower in the world?
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The United States
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What type of boundary exist before areas are settled and there is little room for conflict? Examples?
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Antecedent
Us/Canada Saudi Arabia |
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What type of boundary is installed after settlement- but take accont of cultural/ethnic/religious and language differences. There is some comflict but it is minimized?
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Subsequent
India, Pakistan, and Cyprus |
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What type of boundary is installed after settlement with no regard to culture. Colonial boundaries and truce lines?
Examples? |
Superimposed
North and South Korea Chad and Libya |
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What type of boundary is not currently relevant but have been in the past and have important cultural/social implications?
Examples? |
Relic
East/West Germany |
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An area of territory that is leagally autonomous. Examples?
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State
United States, France, Nigeria, and India |
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A group of people that share a common heritage and sense of identity.
Examples? |
Nation
Cherokee, Palestinians, Russians, Masai, Welsh |
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A nation-state occurs when the geographical extent of the nation and the state are the same way----VERY RARE
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Nation-State
Iceland, Japan |
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A political structure in which the State is divided into subunits – each subunit has equal powers. Division of power between federal government and subunits is legally defined and constitutionally guaranteed.
Examples? |
Federal
U.S., Canada, Australia |
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A Political Structure where a State may or may not be divided into subunits – if subunits exist they have equal powers but the division of power is not legally defined and not constitutionally guaranteed
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Unitary
France, Netherlands |
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A political Structure where a State is divided into subunits – they have unequal powers based on ethnic or regional history.
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Regional
Britain, Spain |
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What war helped kick off the Industrial Revolution?
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WWI
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What was the main energy for factories in the industrial revolution?
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Coal
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What is the goal of export processing zones?
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Allocation of production to low wage countries.
* Low Wages * Minimal Enviromental Laws * Provision of Tax Breaks *and "race to the bottom" |
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How were neighborhoods in pre-indurstrial cities divided?
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by Occupations
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Small scale, individual redevelopment of neighborhoods- evenetually some larger commercial enterprises. OR the process by which middle-class people move into deteriorated inner-city neighborhoods and renovate the housing.
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Gentrification
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U.S. Jobs are mostly in what sector?
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The service sector
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Resources that are replacable in the human time scale
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Perpetual
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Renewable resource sources are??
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Biomass, Hydroelectri, solar, wind, and nuclear
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What creates acid rain? What is the acidity?
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SO2, NO2 and water
Lemon Juice |
