Physical
When people cut down trees, it can cause this to happen to the soil.
What is erosion?
This type of region is defined by shared cultural traits such as language or religion.
What is a cultural region?
War, famine, and natural disasters are examples of these migration factors.
What are push factors?
People building factories and cities that change the land and rivers are doing this to the environment.
What is modifying the environment?
Burning coal, oil, and gas adds pollution to this part of the Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
The Middle East is often grouped as a region because of shared history and religion, making it this type of region.
What is a formal region?
Jobs and better education are examples of these factors that attract people to a place.
What are pull factors?
armers using irrigation to grow crops in dry areas is an example of this.
What is adapting to the environment?
This process breaks rocks into smaller pieces over time.
What is weathering?
Climate, vegetation, and landforms are used to define this type of region.
What is a physical region?
People moving from rural areas to cities is called this type of migration.
What is urbanization?
Burning fossil fuels adds pollution to the air and causes this problem.
What is climate change (global warming)?
This physical process causes earthquakes when Earth’s plates move.
What is plate tectonics?
This type of region is based on how people perceive an area.
What is a perceptual (vernacular) region?
This term describes how people are spread out across Earth’s surface.
What is population distribution?
When people build levees to prevent flooding, they are doing this to the environment.
What is modifying the environment?