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world geography (Geopolitics Something that has to do with politics as…

- - - - Internal Migration Someone moving around inside their region or country, moving from one house in Boulder to another, moving around within the US
      - Step Migration When you move in steps. Move from India to England, and then from England to the United States
      - Chain Migration When one person or member of a family or community moves first, and then pulls everyone else along after them
      - Cyclical migration temporary and usually repetitive migration. Moving to the United States from Mexico every summer to work on a farm
      - Forced Migration When you are forced out of where you live, and you become a refugee to do war or some other bad thing
    - - Immigration Someone moving to a place
      - Emigration Someone moving away from a place
  - - - Territorial Waters Within 12 miles from the shore of each country, the country gets complete sovereignty, but all other countries maintain the right for peaceful passage
      - Contiguous Zone 12-24 miles out to sea, a country gets limited control for sanitary purposes, immigration, fiscal laws/customs
      - Exclusive Economic Zone: up to 200 miles from the shore, a country has the right to all profit from resources in this area
      - International Waters (AKA the high seas): More than 200 miles out to sea, not really any laws here
      - Median Line Law If there isn't 200 miles of ocean between two countries, you divide it up in the middle
    - - Geometric Like Colorado, you just divide the space up into squares and other simple shapes
      - Physical/Natural When there is something (mountain range, river, ext...) that a boarder is made upon
      - Ocean: Boundaries you have in the ocean
    - - Compact StateThe distance from the center to any boundaries is about the same
      - Prorupted StateOtherwise fairly compact state with a large thing sticking out
      - Perforated State A state that is completely surrounded by another state
      - Elongated StateA long, thin state
      - Fragmented StateA state that is separated by a natural boundary
      - Enclave StateA state that is completely surrounded by, but not ruled by, another state
      - Exclave State A part of a territory separated from the main part of the same territory
- - - - Primary Sector The part of the economy where raw materials are made and produced, the poor part
      - Secondary Sector The part of the economy where raw materials are turned into actual goods
      - Tertiary Sector The part of the economy where goods and services are sold
- - - - absolute location exactly where you are in the world, your address, or coordinates
        
        latitude parallels that run across the globe, used to help find your absolute location, or coordinates
        
        longitude meridians that run across the globe and are used to help find your absolute location
      - relative location where you are defined in terms of other things, ig north of this, south of that
  - - - Mercador Map the mercador map is one of the maps that is used to try and deal with distortion, it maintains the shape of countries, but wildly distorts the size