UNIT ONE

Lesson 1.04 Formal Region (uniform)

• An Area defined by one predominant or universal characteristic throughout its entire area.

• Formal Regions have well defined boundaries ( beyond which predominant or universal characteristic does not apply)

• Example a Country

• An Area defined by universal boundries which has a predominant does not characstic.

Functional (nodal) Region

• An Area organized around a central focal point or node. The characteristic chosen to define a Functional Region dominates at node(akacore) and diminishes as one move away from the node.

• Example: commuting

• A region defined by its political boundaries
• A region defined by its cultural characteristics

Vernacular (Perceptual) Region

• A place that people believe exists as a part of their cultural identity. Such regions emerge from people's informal sense of place rather then from scientific models developed through geographic thought.

• Examples baseball fan

• A region defined by political boundaries
• A region defined by economic activities

Absolute Distance

• Exact Measure of physical space between 2 places

• Exact place

• exact releteve place

• exact non releaietve place

Releative Distance

• Measure of social, cultural and economic relatedness of connectivity between two places.

• How connected or disconnected they are despite their absolute distance from each other.

• How connected or disconnected there place is

• how disconnected they are measureing there disconnection

Absolute Location

• Exact Location of a place.

• The relative position of a place in relation to the physical and cultural characteristics of the surrounding area
• The physical and human aspects of a location
• The movement of people, goods, and ideas from one location to another

Relative Location

• A specific point on a map
• The exact position of a place
• Description of a place in relation to other places.

• The physical characteristics of a place

Reference Map

• Land forms waterways and political data boundaries cities roads.

• Maps that show where something is in space.

  Purpose is ti display geographical data.

• A map that shows the physical features of a place
• A map that shows the political boundaries of a place

Thematic map

• Examples of topics include climate, religious group, population density and deforestation.

• Maps that display physical economic and political or cultural data on a specific topic.

• A map showing the route of a specific journey
• A map showing the layout of a building