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What is a border?
An outer part of edge. Often defines a formal region.
TERM 2
What is a boundary?
DEFINITION 2
Something that fixes a limit or extent.
TERM 3
How are borders
determined?
DEFINITION 3
Physical features and politics
TERM 4
What are some problems that result when a
physical feature is used as a border?
DEFINITION 4
Oxbow lake formation.
TERM 5
What three events resulted in the formation
of the present-day US/Mexico Border?
DEFINITION 5
Annexation of Texas 1845 Mexican session 1848 Gadson
Purchase 1853
What events resulted in the formation of the
present-day US/ Canada border?
Treaty of Paris 1787 Convention of 1818 Oregon Treaty of
TERM 7
How might the 1844 boundary dispute
between the US and Canada?
DEFINITION 7
it would have had the border of the US/Canada at a different
latitude than it is at right now.
TERM 8
What does the Gravity Model explain?
DEFINITION 8
Predicts the levels of spatial interaction between two places.
TERM 9
What variables does the model use in its
calculation of spatial interaction?
DEFINITION 9
The amount of exchange of goods, people, and services
between people.
TERM 10
How might spatial interaction be affected by
political, cultural, or physical phenomenom?
DEFINITION 10
amount of spatial interaction is between two places in
relation to the size and distance between them.
What did the Border Protection, Anti-
terrorism, and illegal Immigration Control Act
of 2005 propose to do?
Criminalized undocumented immigrants Criminalized those
who assisted them. Gave state and local agencies the
authority to enforce immigration policy.
TERM 17
How is the US/Canada border significant?
DEFINITION 17
1. Defense - not by military. Politicall and Economically. 2.
Has influenced Canadian Politics more than American
Politics. 3. Most of Canadas population lives near the border.
4. As a cultural bounday, the border is more permeable to
Canada. 5. Only border of significance to Canada.
TERM 18
What phenomena are eroding the
border?
DEFINITION 18
Globalization Borderless financial markets New media
technology
TERM 19
How are the US/Canada border and the
US/Mexico border similar?
DEFINITION 19
They both have political and personal agendas that make
them want to cross over to the US.
TERM 20
How are they different?
DEFINITION 20
Population spread differently. Population in the country.
Where the cities are located with and near the borders.
Different influences by the media. Few incentives to cross.
