An area with at least one feature that sets it apart from other areas
What is a region
100
Physical regions are determined by physical features; economic regions are based on how people make a living; and cultural regions have to do with a persons beliefs and customs of people in an area.
In what ways do people divide the United States in physical, economic, and cultural regions?
100
technology
What is the way people use new ideas to make tools and machines?
100
tradition
What is a way of life or an idea that has been handed down from the past.
200
The town or city that is the center of government for a county..
What is a county seat?
200
a usual way of doing things
What is a custom?
200
Telephones and computers help people all over the world stay in touch. Television can tell a lot about other regions.
How does communication connect regions?
200
Heritage
What is a way of life, a set of customs, or a belief that has come from the past and continues today?
300
An urban region is crowded, with many buildings. A rural region is more spread out.
How is an urban region different from a rural region?
300
A group made up of people from the same country
What is an ethnic group?
300
The discovery of new resources, pests that destroy new crops, a new use for land such as tourism
What can cause an economic region to change over time?
300
countries, cities, towns, county regions, departments, communities, the European Union, and the United Kingdom
What are some of the political regions in Europe today?
400
States are divided into regions called counties, parishes, or boroughs. They are further divided into cities or towns.
What are some of the political regions into which states are divided?
400
ethnic background, religious beliefs, customs, language, foods and holidays
What might people in a cultural region have in common?
400
Cuban Americans
What is the largest ethnic group in Miami today?
400
North Africa and Sub Saharan Africa
What are two large cultural regions in Africa?
500
The United States' four large regions are the Northeast, the South, the Midwest, and the West
Name the four large geographic regions of the United States
500
Landforms, climate, natural resources, wildlife, and natural vegetation.
What are some of the physical features that can make up a region?
500
erosion, flooding, people adapting environments to fit their needs
What causes physical regions to change over a period of time?
500
mountains, plains, plateaus, peninsulas, islands, forests, hills and valleys