Region
What is a region?
An area with definable characteristics.
What is a location?
What is a place?
Describes the physical and/or human characteristics of location I.e. what it's like there
What is a HEI (Human-Environmental Interaction)
Involves humans interacting with the natural environment
What is a movement?
The travel of people, goods, and ideas from one location to another
What are the three types of regions?
Formal region, Functional Region, and Perceptual
What are the two types of locations?
Absolute and Relative
what are some physical characteristics?
landforms, climate, natural disasters, vegetation, etc
Weather and climate
What is a way humans modified their environment?
The Romans invented aqueducts to transport water to dry areas
Does Formal region have official boundaries drawn by humans?
Yes it does
What is an Absolute location?
An exact point such as with map coordinates or a postal address
what does place have more to do with?
place has more to do with human value associated with the feature/area
permanent settlements always develop along what?
fresh water resources such as a river, lake, streams, etc
What is an example of movement?
What is an example of a functional region?
Jimmy John's delivery zones
What does Relative location mean?
One point compared to (or in-relation) to another point using words like near, above, east of, down the road from, or simply over there
what are some human characteristics?
Bridges, monuments, etc
Vernacular
What's an example of a relative location?
Bayou View Elementary is northeast of BVMS