1. Unit 1 Chapter 3 Lesson 1 Understanding Regions
20 Questions!

2. A place’s position in relation to other places on the Earth.
Relative location

3. Why do people divide places into regions?
It helps people learn about places and tell more about them.

4. It has exact boundaries set by law.
How is a region that shares a government different from other kinds of regions?
It has exact boundaries set by law.

5. Center of government for a county.
County seat

6. Part of a state that has its own government.
county

7. Into what smaller parts are most states divided?
Into counties

8. Why do people sometimes group states into regions?
It makes it easier to compare areas of the United States.

9. The exact position on the Earth’s surface.
Absolute location

10. Set of imaginary lines that run east and west.
Lines of latitude.

11. Lines that never meet.
parallels

12. 231/2 N
Tropic of Cancer

13. 231/2 S
Tropic of Capricorn

14. Set of imaginary lines that run north and south.
Lines of longitude

15. Another name for lines of longitude.
meridians

16. That’s All!
Keep Sharp Minds!