G2 Regionalization ESCALONA

What are functional regions?

• Regions focused on a node or central point
• Regions that reflect human activity
• Regions defined by beliefs, perceptions, and attitudes
• Regions with a shared trait or common characteristic

What may overlap between regions?

• Shifts in political regions based on census data
• Egypt as part of the Middle-East ot not
• Cultural shifts due to migration
• Changes in environmental factors affecting regional boundaries

What is one purpose of regions?

• To identify political and economic global institutions
• To reflect movements of people
• To organize space based on human and physical characteristics
• To simplify complex geographic data

What are the properties of regions?

• Physical, economic, cultural and political.
• Projection, Scale, Symbols and Orientation
• Scale, Level of Knowledge, Boundaries, Temporal and subjective.
• All of the above

What is an example of a large, global region?

• Sub-Saharan Africa
• Midtown portion of Manhattan in New York City
• Global North and Global South
• Asia-Pacific region

What are the types of regions?

• Shared, focused, and defined
• Formal, functional, and perceptual/vernacular
• Political, economic, cultural and physical
• Beliefs, perceptions, and attitudes

What may lead political geographers to revise the boundaries and dimensions of political regions?

• Changes in cultural characteristics due to migration
• Revisions of political regions based on population growth and decline
• Adjustments of regional boundaries based on climate patterns or land uses
• Changes in political stability or conflict

What are vernacular regions?

• Regions defined by beliefs, perceptions and attitudes
• Regions focused on a node or central point
• Regions with a shared trait or common characteristic
• Regions that reflect movements of people

What is the purpose of combining places into regions?

• To reflect movements of people
• To aid analysis and present a complex earth in simpler terms
• To define a region
• To categorize and organize geographic space

Why are regions created?

• To study characteristics from a very localized region
• To organize space based on human and physical characteristics
• To define large, global regions
• To establish coherent generalizations about space