1. Part 3: The Five Themes of Geography

2. Theme 2: Region

3. What is a region?

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

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

6. What types of regions are there?

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

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

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

10. Functional Regions Organized around a central node.

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

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

13. Vernacular/Perceptual Regions A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

14. Vernacular/Perceptual Regions Informal and varies dependent on who is defining them.

15. Vernacular/Perceptual Regions Examples: “The South” “The Country”

16. What are time zones?

17. “A Time zone is a region on Earth that has a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes.”

18. What is the international date line?

19. “The International Date Line is an imaginary line on the surface of the Earth, that runs from the north to the south pole and demarcates one calendar day from the next.”

20. A traveler crossing the International Date Line eastbound subtracts one day, or 24 hours, so that the calendar date to the west of the line is repeated. (vice versa for those traveling west (+1 day) The International Date Line

21. Imagine a flight from Chicago to Sydney and back – How long, and what happens?

22. If you take off at 10am on 12/1/14 from Chicago when do you arrive?

23. If you take off at 10am on 12/9/14 from Sydney when do you arrive?

24. The next 7 or so slides ask you to identify if the region shown is formal, functional, or vernacular.

25. The Corn Belt A.Formal B.Functional C.Vernacular A.Formal B.Functional C.Vernacular

26. The South A.Formal B.Functional C.Vernacular A.Formal B.Functional C.Vernacular

27. Kentucky A.Formal B.Functional C.Vernacular A.Formal B.Functional C.Vernacular

28. A county in Kentucky A.Formal B.Functional C.Vernacular A.Formal B.Functional C.Vernacular Breckenridge County

29. Eastern Kentucky A.Formal B.Functional C.Vernacular A.Formal B.Functional C.Vernacular

30. Chicagoland (Chicago and all the areas served by the city) A.Formal B.Functional C.Vernacular A.Formal B.Functional C.Vernacular

31. The Deep South A.Formal B.Functional C.Vernacular A.Formal B.Functional C.Vernacular