1. PLACE NAME DUH!!!! BIXBY OKLAHOMA UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA
NORTHERN HEMISPHERE

2. TOPONYMS FUN, FUN, FUN! NAME GIVEN TO A PLACE ON EARTH!
LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGRYCHWYRNDROPWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH—”CHURCH ST. MARY’S IN THE GROVE OF THE WHITE HAZLENUT TREE NEAR THE RAPID WHIRLPOOL AND THE CHURCH OF ST TISILIO NEAR THE RED CAVE”
LONGEST IN US—LAKE CHARGOGGAGOGGMANCHAUGGAGOGGCHAUBUNAGUNGAMAUGG IN MASSACHUSETTS

4. physical character of place
Climate
Water sources
Topography
Soil
Vegetation
Latitude
elevation
SITE

5. DO YOU KNOW WHERE JUJAX IS? HOW ‘BOUT THE OLD FOLK’S HOME?
SITUATION
DO YOU KNOW WHERE JUJAX IS?
HOW ‘BOUT THE OLD FOLK’S HOME?
THE STRAIGHT OF MALACCA?

6. Situation: Singapore
Fig. 1-7: Singapore is situated at a key location for international trade.

7. What is a Region? A region is an area with one or more common features that make it different from surrounding areas.

8. People within the region may have a distinct “sense of place” or an identity with certain cultural elements

9. CULTURAL LANDSCAPE
a combination of cultural, economic and physical features
Defined by Carl Sauer as an area fashioned from nature by a cultural group
“regional studies” approach initiated by Paul Vidal de la Bloche and Jean Brunhes around the turn of the 20th century
Later adopted by American geographers including Robert Platt
Region’s uniqueness comes from a combination of human and environmental factors
People are the most important agent of change on the earth’s surface

10. The visible human imprint on the landscape.
Cultural Landscape
The visible human imprint on the landscape.
Religion and cremation practices diffuse with Hindu migrants from India to Kenya.

11. 2 main classifications of regions
Countries that share common features
Or localities in a country that share common features

12. VERNACULAR or PERCEPTUAL REGION
PLACE THAT PEOPLE BELIEVE EXIST AS PART OF CULTURAL IDENTITY
MENTAL MAPS—PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE

13. How are regions defined
How are regions defined? They are defined by their physical & human characteristics

14. WHAT ARE
THE 3 TYPES
OF REGIONS?

15. Formal: same as a uniform region—has some characteristic in common that is measurable —such as language, crop, climate. Ex. State, country, wheat belt, etc. They can be generalizations and not always precise.

16. Functional Region Nodal region—centered around a focal point
Characteristic diminishes away from focal point
Linked by communication or transportation
Usually economic
Newspaper circulation, tv stations, etc.

17. VERNACULAR or PERCEPTUAL REGION
PLACE THAT PEOPLE BELIEVE EXIST AS PART OF CULTURAL IDENTITY
MENTAL MAPS—PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE
US map assignment

18. Other names for regions:
Formal: uniform or homogenous
Functional: nodal
Vernacular: perceptual

19. Key Question:
What are Geographic Concepts, and How are they used in Answering Geographic Questions?

20. Geographic Concepts
Ways of seeing the world spatially that are used by geographers in answering research questions.

21. Geographic inquiry focuses on the spatial:
- the spatial arrangement of places and phenomena (human and physical).
- how are things organized on Earth?
- how do they appear on the landscape?
- why? where? so what?

22. Regional Integration of Culture
Culture is an all-encompassing term that identifies not only the whole tangible lifestyle of peoples, but also their prevailing values and beliefs.
- cultural trait—the impact of material and not material culture on the environment
- cultural complex—group of traits that defines a particular culture
- cultural hearth—origin of a culture trait, or one of the original cultures in prehistoric context