Geography 120 Chapter 1

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Regional Geography

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combines elements of physical and human geography and is concerned with the way that unique combinations of environmental and human factors produce territories with distinctive landscapes and cultural attributes

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Sense of Place

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feelings evoked as a result of the experiences and memories that people associate with a place

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Regionalization

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the geographer's classification of individual places or areal units

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Formal Regions

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groups of areal units that have a high degree of homogeneity in terms of particular distinguishing features

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functional regions

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regions that are defined and classified by patterns of spatial interaction or spatial organization

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World regions

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extensive geographic divisions based on continental and physiographic settings that contain major clusters of humankind with broadly similar cultural attributes

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States

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independent political units with boundaries that are internationally recognized by other states

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Nation

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group of people often sharing common elements of culture such as religion or language, a history, or a political identity.

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Supranational Organization

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collections of individual states with a common goal that may be economic and/or political in nature and that diminishes, to some extent, individual state sovereignty in favor of the group interests of the membership.

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Boundaries

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can be established in many different ways with differing degrees of permeability.