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8. What role do familiar places have in understanding the situation of unfamiliar places? Situation helps
us find an unfamiliar place by comparing its location with a familiar one. We give directions to people by
referring to the situation of a place.
characteristics.
10. Define: Cultural Landscape: A combination of cultural features such as language and religion,
economic features such as agriculture and industry, and physical features such as climate and
vegetation.
11. One contemporary (current) approach to studying the cultural landscape is called the Regional
Studies Approach. What do geographers who adopt this view believe regarding regions? Geographers
seek to merely identify these characteristics, geographers seek relationships among them. Geographers
recognize that in the real world, characteristics are integrated. Geographers identify three types of
regions-formal, functional, and vernacular
12. How did Carl Sauer describe the Cultural Landscape? Culture is the agent, the natural area the
medium, the cultural landscape is the result.
13. Complete the chart below, which details the types of regions identified by geographers.
Also
Called
Formal Region
Uniform Region
Functional Region
Nodal Region
Vernacular Region
Perceptual Region
An example of a functional
region is the reception area of a
TV station. The signal is stronger
at the center of its service area.
At some distance from the
As an example of a
vernacular region,
Americans frequently
refer to the south as a
place with environmental,
15. How does a geographer conclude that two (or more) phenomena are spatially associated that is,
they bear some sort of cause and effect relationship? They do that by trying to identify cultural,
economic, and environmental factors that display similar spatial distributions.
16. From Key Issue 1, how could GIS be helpful in determining if two phenomena are spatially
associated/ eg. Higher cancer rates in lower income parts of Baltimore? If you put in a GIS higher cancer
rates in lower income parts and many income parts also have higher cancer rates, that means theres a
relationship between both.