REGIONS
This is an area that shares common characteristics.
What is a region?
A river is this type of characteristic.
What is physical?
These boundaries are created by laws and governments.
What are formal boundaries?
This is your personal view or picture of the world.
What is a mental map?
This is your view shaped by your background.
What is perspective?
These are natural features like mountains, rivers, and climate?
What are physical characteristics of a region?
A bridge is this type of characteristic.
What is human?
These boundaries are based on culture and perception.
What are informal boundaries?
The influence how you see places based on past experiences.
What is perception?
These are unconscious stereotypes that affect thinking?
What is bias?
These include language, religion, and buildings.
What are human characteristics of a region?
Climate falls under this category.
What is physical characteristics?
This is a cultural region like "The Midwest".
What is a perceptual/ vernacular region?
This describes feelings attached to a place.
What is sense of a place?
Assuming everyone in a region is the same is called this.
What is a stereotype?
These shared patterns help create a region's identity.
What are unifying characteristics?
Language is what type of characteristic?
What is human?
These boundaries are described as "fuzzy" and can change.
What are informal boundaries?
These maps are shaped by travel, residence, and experiences.
What are mental maps?
This term refers to human-altered features like roads and buildings.
What is cultural landscape?
This term describes how features are arranged on Earth's Surface.
What is spacial pattern?
This type of feature often determines where people settle.
What are physical characteristics?
This term means official authority over an area.
What is jurisdiction?
This means ideas are based on personal opinions, not facts.
What is subjectivity?
Why might two people see the same place differently?
Because of different experiences, culture, and perspective.