4 Social Studies Ch 3

 MANY PEOPLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF LITTLE HAVANA HAVE A CUBAN BACKGROUND.  WHAT KIND OF A REGION IS THIS?

• A cultural region

• A political region

• A physical region

• An economic region

 WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS ABOUT REGIONS IS FALSE?

•  Technology helps connect regions.

• Regions depend on one another.

• Regions are all the same.

• Regions change when people modify them.

 Into how many regions do we group all of the states?

• Three

• Four

• Five

• Six

WHY IS WASHINGTON D.C. AN EXAMPLE OF A POLITICAL REGION?

• Many government leaders live there.

• Government is the largest employer in the area.

• It is a city where people share a government.

• It is not part of any state.

WHAT ARE THE THREE LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT IN THE UNITED STATES?

•  Executive, Legislative, and Judicial

• Federal, State, and local governments

• State, Country, City

• Federal, District, Borough

 WHICH OF THESE POLITICAL REGIONS SHARE THE WORLD'S LONGEST UNPROTECTED BORDER?

• Canada and the U.S.

• Mexico and the U.S.

• Canada and Greenland

• Central America and Caribbean Islands

INTO WHAT KINDS OF POLITICAL REGIONS IS MEXICO DIVIDED?

• Commonwealth

• Provinces

• States

• Territories

 WHAT IS A COMMONWEALTH?

• a former state of the U.S.

• a country that shares a border with the U.S.

• a country that trades with the U.S.

• a territory of the U.S. that governs itself

All regions are interdependent. What does this mean?

• Regions are all the same size

• Regions share a landform

• Regions depend on one another for resources, products, and services

• Regions are only political

Why do people divide regions into political regions?

• It helps people live and govern in an organized way, and makes places easier to describe/understand

• It keeps the resources in each state safe from other states

• It helps people stay in their communities

• It helps interdependence