Regions

Question 1

What is region? (two definitions)

Answer 1

An area on the earth’s surface that is defined by certain unifying characteristics

The sense of place that humans possess may apply to a larger area of Earth rather to a specific point

Question 2

What are the three types of regions?

Answer 2

1. Formal region
2. Functional region
3. Vernacular region

Question 3

What is formal region?

Answer 3

An area within which everyone shares a common one or more distinctive characteristics

Question 4

What is a formal region characterized by (two definitions)?

Answer 4

1. By common human property. The presence of a people who share a particular language, religion, nationality, political identity or culture .
2. A common physical property such as the presence of a particular type of climate, landform, or vegetation.

Question 5

What is a functional region?

Answer 5

An area organized around a node or focal point with the surrounding areas linked to that node by transportation systems, communication systems, or other economic association (i.e. manufacturing and retail trading).

Question 6

What is a functional region linked by?

Answer 6

Linked by commuting patterns, trade flows, television and radio broadcasts, newspapers, fire or police service, etc.

Question 7

What does a functional region?

Answer 7

It requires a form of spatial interaction between nodes and the surrounding region

Question 8

What does a functional region have?

Answer 8

A defined core that retains specific characteristics that diminishes outwards.

Question 9

What is another term for vernacular region?

Answer 9

A perceptual region

Question 10

What is a vernacular region? (two definitions)

Answer 10

1, It is a place that people believe exists as part of the cultural identity.
2. A construct that reflects human feelings and attitudes about areas and is therefore defined by people’s shared subjective images of those areas.

Question 11

“A number of important dimensions of social life and social power are brought together in ______ .There is a material component such as ____, there is a functional element associated with control of, or attempts to control, _____ and there is also a symbolic component associated with people’s _______ ).”

Answer 11

1. territory [or we can substituted other words here, boundaries, regions, nations, places].
2. land
3. space (e.g. gang turf, school districts)
4. social identity (e.g. I’m a Southerner, a Yankee, a Virginian, a Canadian, etc.

Question 12

In short, lines, boundaries, territories, regions …. They matter. The separation of the earth’s surface into various units (nations, states, districts, regions, places, communities, neighborhoods) are…..

Answer 12

The spatial expression of power