Location
Regions
Region Types
Linking Regions
100
The position of a place in relation to other places on the Earth.
What is relative location?
100
It's easier for people to understand a place if they divide it into smaller regions
Why are places sometimes divided into regions?
100
Houses are built far apart
How are the homes in rural regions built?
100
The buying and selling of goods
What is trade?
200
Imaginary lines that run north and south
What are lines of longitude?
200
Wheat, soy beans, corn
What are natural resources in the Middle West?
200
Of or like a city region
What is urban?
200
All the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service
What is an industry?
300
The exact position of a place on the Earth's surface
What is absolute location?
300
Mountain regions, plains regions, wildlife, natural vegetation, by kinds of trees, agriculture
What are physical features that regions can be based on?
300
The plant life that grows naturally in one area
What is natural vegetation?
300
To work at only one kind of job
What is to specialize?
400
Imaginary lines that run east and west
What are lines of latitude?
400
A region based on customs and belief of the people who live there
What is a cultural region?
400
A town or small city near a larger city?
What is a suburb?
400
Mailing letters, cell phones, fax machines, telephones, computers, airplanes, trains, cars,
What are ways in which families are able to stay in contact with each other?
500
The way people and goods are moved from place to place
What is transportation?
500
No one region can meet all the needs and wants of its people, so they depend on resources and products from every region of the U.S.
Why do regions depend on other regions?
500
A part of a state, usually larger than a city, which has its own government
What is a county?
500
Example: My Grandma lives between Milbank and Ortonville.
What is relative location?
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