1. Place: Unique Location of a Feature

2. What is a Toponym?

3. “A Toponym is the name of something on the Earth.”

4. What is site and situation?

5. “Site is describing a location of a place based on its physical characteristics. Situation is the location of a place relative to other places.”

6. Describe your town or city only by discussing its location relative to other places.

7. Describe your town or city only by discussing its physical characteristics.

8. Is it Site or Situation?

9. Much of South Louisiana is made up of swamp-land.
Site
Situation
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[MC Any]
[MC All]

10. Baton Rouge is next to the Mississippi River.
Site
Situation
[Default]
[MC Any]
[MC All]

11. Regions: Areas of Unique Characteristics

12. What is a region?

13. “A region is an area of Earth defined by one or more distinctive characteristics.”

14. “The physical features, economic features, and cultural features that make up a region are called its cultural landscape.”

15. What types of regions are there?

16. Everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics.
Formal Regions
Everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics.

17. Borders are easy to track and slow to change.
Formal Regions
Borders are easy to track and slow to change.

18. Examples: Political regions and long lasting economic regions.
Formal Regions
Examples: Political regions and long lasting economic regions.

19. Organized around a central node.
Functional Regions
Organized around a central node.

20. Functional Regions
Tied to the point by transportation and communication systems or by economic or functional associations.

21. Examples: Subway Systems, Newspaper Distribution, Store Distribution
Functional Regions
Examples: Subway Systems, Newspaper Distribution, Store Distribution

22. Vernacular (Perceptual) Regions
A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

23. Perceptual Regions
Informal and varies dependent on who is defining them.

24. Perceptual Regions
Examples: “The South” “The Country”

25. The next 10 slides ask you to identify if the region shown is formal, functional, or vernacular.

26. The Corn Belt
Formal
Functional
Vernacular
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[MC Any]
[MC All]

27. The South
Formal
Functional
Vernacular
[Default]
[MC Any]
[MC All]

28. Kentucky
Formal
Functional
Vernacular
[Default]
[MC Any]
[MC All]

29. A county in Kentucky Formal Functional Vernacular Breckenridge County
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[MC Any]
[MC All]

30. Eastern Kentucky Formal Functional Vernacular [Default] [MC Any]
[MC All]

31. Eastern Kentucky Formal Functional Vernacular [Default] [MC Any]
[MC All]

32. Chicagoland (Chicago and all the areas served by the city)
Formal
Functional
Vernacular
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[MC Any]
[MC All]

33. The Deep South Formal Functional Vernacular [Default] [MC Any]
[MC All]

34. Assignment
You need to create three drawings that demonstrate each of the three types of regions, formal, functional, and vernacular. You must also write a short summary explaining your drawing and the type of region shown. This assignment will be due at the end of the class period and will be worth 15 points. You must display EFFORT in your drawings to earn full points.