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module 6 review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| formal region | a geographical area inhabited by people who have one or more traits in common, such as a language, religion, or system of livelihood uniform or homogeneous region |
| border zone | |
| functional region | a geographic area that has been organized to function politically, socially, culturally, or economically on its own nodal region |
| nodes | central points where the functions are coordinated and directed examples of nodes are city halls, national capitals, county seats, parish churches, factories, and banks |
| metropolitan area | composed of a heavily populated urban core and its less populated surrounding areas, including suburban areas and other areas more distant from the city center |
| mental map | a personal representation of a portion of Earth’s surface |
| sense of place | means that their mental maps include the places that are important to them, such as a school, mall, ball field, or house |
| activity space | where they go and what they do on a day-to-day basis |
| regional identity | the awareness of belonging to a group of people within a region |
| contested boundaries | where boundaries are the subject of dispute |
| regional analysis | to examine the patterns and processes within and between regions at multiple geographic scales: local, national, regional, and global |
| geographers recognize three types of regions | formal, functional, and perceptual/vernacular |
| geographers can identify an Arabic-language formal region by drawing a map of the world and indicating where Arabic is the native language of the majority of the population | formal region |
| depend on multiple related traits | formal region |
| must have borders | formal region |
| nodal region | functional region |
| A city, a county, a precinct, a church diocese or parish, and a trade area are all examples of | functional regions |
| city halls, national capitals, county seats, parish churches, factories, and banks are examples of | nodes |
| a large city that is connected to the suburbs by a mass transit system is an example of | functional region |
| often do not coincide spatially with formal regions | functional regions |
| identified by the people living in a region specifically using the language of that region | perceptual region |
| or example, people who live in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, region call what most of us know as rubber bands “gum bands.” | perceptual regions |
| the most democratic type of region | perceptual regions |
| They are named, and their boundaries are imagined, through popular consensus | perceptual regions |
| can also be described as a way in which an individual identifies a specific perceptual region | mental map |
| includes what a person knows about a place, and it contains personal impressions of what is in that place and where that place may be located | mental maps |
| a person’s mental map might show the route a person takes to school, the grocery store at which the person shops, or the fast-food restaurant where the person goes for lunch | activity space |
| a school, mall, ball field, or house | sense of place |
| could mean being a part of a specific ethnic group, such as African Americans or Asian Americans within the United States | regional identity |
| could mean an affiliation with the region in which you (or your parents) were born and its associated history and culture | regional identity |
| the Catalan people in Spain, who predominantly live in the autonomous region of Catalonia in the northeastern part of the country, often identify with that region based on its language, culture, and history this is an example of | regional identity |
| Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom instead of the Republic of Ireland this is an example of | contested boundaries |
| The dispute itself may be not only religious but also political or cultural | contested boundaries |
| means analysis based on formal, functional, or vernacular regions | regional analysis |
| used to determine why people live where they do and how they use the land they live on, comparing one region with other parts of the same country, with a continent, with a larger world region, or with the world as a whole | regional analysis |
| geographers might look at a world (global) map of religions and determine how many Christians live in each world region this is an example of | regional analysis |
| what is a geographical unit based on one or more common characteristics or functions | a region |
| perceptual regions | based on the shared feelings and attitudes of the people who live in the area. They are identified by the people living in a region specifically using the language of that region. vernacular region |
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