Intro to Regions

What are physical features?

• Weather of a place over a long period of time

• Landforms and water

• Important places or objects

• Towns, roads, and bridges

What are human features?

• The weather of a place over a long period of time

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  Important places or objects

• Plants that grow in an area

• Towns, roads, and bridges

What is climate?

• Important places or objects

• The weather of a place over a long period of time

• Towns, roads, and bridges

• Plants that grow in an area

What is vegetation?

• Landforms and water

• The weather of a place over a long period of time

• Plants that grow in an area

• Towns, roads, and bridges

What is culture?

• Plants that grow in an area

• Important places or objects

• The way of life that is shared by a group of people

• Landforms and water

What are landmarks?

• Important places or objects

• Landforms and water

• Towns, roads and bridges

• The way of life that is shared by a group of people

Why do geographers divide the United States into regions?

• They can only study five states at a time.

• It gives them something to keep them busy.

• Grouping thing that are alike makes them easier to study.

• Grouping things that are alike makes it easier to draw maps.

Which one of these is NOT a natural resource?

• Apples

• Fish

• Roads

• Rocks

Which of these is NOT a part of a region’s culture?

• Food

• Music

• Sports

• Vegetation

Why do geographers disagree about how to divide the United States into regions?

• All of the regions have the same features.

• There are too may states to put into groups.

• A state in between two regions might have features of both regions.

• Some geographers think that there should be an even number of regions.