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Chapter 13 Geo
The Regional Concept
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a region? | A device of areal generalization and is an attempt to seperate into recognizable component parts of the diversity and complexity of the earth's surface |
| What is areal generalization? | The basic idea of a place, also known as a form of region |
| What is a regional concept? | A physical and cultural phenomena on the surface of the earth are rationally arranged by complex but comprehensive spatial processes |
| What is a formal region? | areas of essential uniformity throughout in one or a limited combination of physical or cultural features. |
| What is a functional (nodal) region? | A spatial system defined by the interactions and connections that give it a dynamic, organizational bias |
| What is a perceptual (popular or vernacular) region? | When regions have existed only in the perceptions of their inhabitants or the population at large |
| What are "hierarchically arranged" regions? | Although regions vary in scale, type, and degree of generalization, none stands alone as the ultimate key to areal understanding; each only defines a part of spatial reality. |
| What are single factor regions? | The simplest of all regions to define and is based on a single, readily apparent components or characteristics |
| What are multifactor regions? | based on multiple, readily apparent components or characteristics |
| What are landforms as regions? | Exists in a more sharply defined fashion than such transitional physical features such as soil, climate, and vegetation. |
| What are dynamic regions in weather and climate? | Most of the natural environment is dynamic in that vegetations, soils, climates, and boundaries change through time by natural processes but also by actions of humans |
| What are natural resource regions? | regions that have resources that people depend on for existence |
| What are regions in the earth science tradition based on? | Nature and not human actions |
| What are regions in the culture-environment tradition based on? | Human occupation and organization of space |
| What is the one element of study common to both physical and human geographers? | The process; the becoming of an ecosystem, cultural landscape, or the pattern of exchanges in an economic system |
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