4.4, Boundaries quiz

A type of boundary that was there before major human settlements:

A type of boundary that was drawn after major human settlement in an area:

A type of boundary that is drawn over existing cultures, usually by an outside force:

A type of boundary that takes existing cultures into account, and attempts to align to them as a result:

Boundaries drawn in straight lines, based on longitude and latitude:

A border that no longer exists, but leaves an imprint on the landscape:

Match the following types of boundaries:

• superimposed

• 
• relic

• 
• subsequent OR consequent

• 
• antecedent

• 
• geometric

• 

The southern and western borders of Iraq were drawn in a straight line.

• subsequent

• relic

• geometric

• antecedent

• superimposed

The Berlin Conference in the 1885 divided up Africa among the major European colonial powers with no regard for the exiting cultures throughout the continent.

• subsequent

• relic

• geometric

• antecedent

• superimposed

The Berlin Wall divided East and West Germany from 1961-1989. The border it represented is no longer there, but the wall still stands in some parts of the city.

• subsequent

• relic

• geometric

• antecedent

• superimposed