Today in class we learned more vocabulary for the unit. The words we learned today were the types of regions and landscapes. Some examples are cultural landscape, and formal region also known as a uniform region or homogeneous region. The definition of cultural landscape is a combination of cultural features such as language and religion, economic features such as agriculture and industry, and and physical features such as climate and vegetation. The definition of formal landscape is an area within which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics. When we talked about formal regions, we did an activity showing an example of one, which by the way is a perfect example. The maps of the U.S. that show the states voting in each region for democrat and republican parties. This was a great way to explain this because if gives you a variety of regions that all have the same thing in common, and that is exactly what a formal region is. Looking forward to more discussion.
In human geography class today, we finished dividing our regions by the various similarities they shared. My group also noticed a mistake we had been making and fixed it. That was that we weren't exactly dividing the regions to their correct category. For example, when we compared the different maps of presidential votes, we mistakenly put a few states together that weren't always 100% together. Some might have gone democratic one year while the others might have gone republic. I also hadn't picked up that we could divide them up based on weather/temperature. This caught my eye on a few states that were out of place as well. This changes things! This is what also divides us into different cultures. Culture is what makes up a specific region or group of people based on customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms. With the knowledge of the different regions and why they are in that region, it can help us to define what kinds of people may live there. This is what I g...
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