Unit 4: Political Patterns and Processes
4.1 Introduction to Political Geography
4.2 Political Processes
4.3 Political Power and Territoriality
Objectives
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For world political maps: a. Define the different types of political entities. b. Identify a contemporary example of political entities.
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Explain the processes that have shaped contemporary political geography.
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Describe the concepts of political power and territoriality as used by geographers.
Reading
Activity
Human Geography: Chapters 10-11 p.203-253
Ethel Wood: Unit 4 p.99-123
4.4 Defining Political Boundaries
4.5 The Function of Political Boundaries
4.6 Internal Boundaries
Objectives
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Define types of political boundaries used by geographers.
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Explain the nature and function of international and internal boundaries.
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Explain the nature and function of international and internal boundaries.
Activities
4.7 Forms of Governance
4.8 Defining Devolutionary Factors
4.9 Challenges to Sovereignty
4.10 Concequences of Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces
Objectives
Activities
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Define federal and unitary states.
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Explain how federal and unitary states affect the spatial organization.
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Define factors that lead to the devolution of states.
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Explain how political, economic, cultural, and technological changes challenge state sovereignty.
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Explain how the concepts of centrifugal and centripetal forces apply at the state scale.