Chapter 2: Understanding Regions

Why do geographers divide the world into regions?

• to help organize ideas about people and places

• to make it easier to talk about

• they just wanted to

• there is no reason for the division

What is a region?

• Where a place is.

• An area that shares one or more features.

What is a system of making and carrying out rules and laws called?

• Region

• Government

• Population

• Religion

What is population?

• a system of faith or worship

• a way to carry out laws

• the amount of people who live in an area

• the edge of a region

What is a Religion?

• A way to create an region

• A system of faith or worship

• All of the Above

Most regions do not have borders, they have boundaries. What is a boundary?

• A system of faith and worship

• The edge of a region

• A exact line of where an area ends

True or False: One place CANNOT belong to more than one region.

• True

• False

What are the two main types of regions?

• Natural and Human

• Natural and Imaginary

• Human and Animal

This means a city

• Suburban

• Urban

• Rural

A smaller town that is near a city is known as __________

• Urban

• Suburban

• Rural