Student _________________
APHG
September 2012
Miss Canone
“Defining Geographic Scales”
Directions: Use the reading, as well as class notes, to answer the questions
below.
I. Map Scale
1. What are the three types of map scale? Show an example of each.
II. Spatial Scale
2. What are the three scales at which the earth is studied?
3. What is the difference between a small scale map and a large scale map?
Provide one example of each.
III. Local Scale
4. What is your “local scale”?
IV. Regional Scale
5. List the three types of regional scales.
6. What is the difference between a “formal region” and a “functional
region”?
7. List 2 examples of formal regions.
8. List 2 examples of functional regions.
9. What is a perceptual or vernacular region? List 2 examples from the
article and 2 examples not in article.
V. Global Scale
10. Define globalization.
11. Why can companies now organize economic activities on a global scale?
12. What is an example of an effect of globalization on religion?
13. What is an example of an effect of globalization on language?
VI. Global-Local Tensions
14. Into what 3 ethnic groups has Iraq been split into as a result of the Iraqi
War?
15. What has been the effect of the “communications revolution” on
globalization?
16. How has globalization led to more specialization?
17. How have “transnational corporations” influenced local regions of the
world?
18. What does the term “glocal” mean? How does glocalization affect you?
19. How can “glocalization” influence fast food chains?
20. Why are “scales” so important to geographers?