Specialized Regions
Landforms
Arabian Peninsula
Delmarva Peninsula
Miscellaneous
100

A region that exists only in the mind, such as “the South” or “the Far West” with no agreed-upon boundaries.

What is PERCEPTUAL region?

100

A piece of land bordered by water on three sides.

What is a peninsula?

100

What is the Arabian Peninsula?  

100

What is the Delmarva Peninsula?

100

The acronym for five themes of geography. 

What is Mr. Help? 

200

The different types of specialized regions (hint: 3 of them).

What are formal, functional, and perceptual (regions)?

200

A piece of land surrounded by water.

What is an ISLAND?

200

Extreme temperatures with hot temperatures during the day and cold temperatures at night. 

What is the climate of the Arabian Peninsula? 

200

This could change the economic region within the Delmarva Peninsula.

What is droughts or natural disasters which could occur causing crops to die?

200

This region consist of language, religion, ethnicity, government, ideas, etc. 

What is Human (Cultural) Region? 

300

Economic regions that focus on a certain activity.

What is a specialized region?

300

This is a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two other large areas of water. 

What is a STRAIT?

300

This could happen to change the economic region within the Arabian Peninsula? 

What is the oil could run out?

300

Best describes the climate of the Delmarva Peninsula?

What is TEMPERATE?

300

This is the reason why Geographers create regions.  

So to make it easier, geographers divide the Earth into regions. Regions are areas that share common features. ... Geographers create these regions based on the information they want to study.

400

Where the defining characteristic of the region is strongest in the center (hub or point of origin) and becomes less evident towards the edges, such as the reception area for a TV station or a radio station.

What is FUNCTIONAL region?

400

A narrow piece of land connecting two larger areas of land with water on both sides.

 

What is a ISTHMUS?

400

Facilities which are necessary to support specialization in the Arabian Peninsula?

What are refineries, pipelines, and a means of transporting the oil. 

400

Facilities which are necessary to support specialization in the Delmarva Peninsula?

What are farming equipment, such as tractors and irrigation tools? 

400

Physical (Natural) regions.

What are landforms, mountains, rivers, climate, etc.?

500

Where the defining features of the region extend uniformly from border to border, such as a legal/political region.

What is FORMAL region?

500

An area that contains a chain or group of islands scattered in lakes, rivers, or the ocean.

What is an ARCHIPELAGO?

500

Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, UAE: United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Yeman.

What are the seven countries that make-up the Arabian Peninsula? 

500

The states that make up the land mass surrounded by the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.

What is Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia.  

500

Economic regions specialize in trade.

What is to have a strong economy?

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