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Agenda
Warm-Up
Types of Regions Notes
Open Note Ch. 9 Test
Introduction to Ch. 10- Demography
1. What determines night and day for various
locations on Earth?
A.The rotation of the Earth
B.The revolution of the Earth
C.The tilt of the Earth
D.The hemispheres of the Earth
2. What determines the change in seasons for various
locations on Earth?
A. The rotation of the Earth
B. The revolution of the Earth
C. The tilt of the Earth
D. The hemispheres of the Earth
Types of Regions
Regions
• Based on:
– Characteristics of a place:
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Cultural
Political
Economic
Social, etc…
• Region- area that has common characteristics
different from neighboring areas.
Cultural Region
• Cultural Region: common characteristic of
people living there.
– Pick 1 example and write it down
– Ex.: Texas- shares history, united by government,
educational system and similar ways of life.
– Ex.: Middle East- large deserts w/mountains, river
valleys (Nile, Tigris, Euphrates), crossroads of
Africa, Asia, & Europe- where civilization 1st
developed.
Create a chart like this
one in your notes.
Leave room for a
definition and example
for each type of region.
Region
Formal
Functional
Perceptual
Formal
• Region with clear boundaries
– One common human or physical characteristic
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Pick 1 example and write it down
Ex.: counties, states, & countries
Ex.: Corn Belt- states that grow large amounts of corn
ex.: Little Havana- in Miami where large #’s of Cubans
live.
Formal Region
Example:
• Counties, States, Countries
Formal Region
Example:
•Desert, Rainforest
Formal Region
Example:
• The Rockies, Atlantic
Coastal Plain
Functional
• One function that may cross other boundaries
such as political boundaries.
– Pick 1 example and write it down
– Ex.: Mississippi R. drainage basin- # of states that
border the area.
– Ex.: Houston & its surrounding metropolitan areawhere people live, work & shop.
Functional Region
Example:
• Metropolitan Areas
- Greater Houston Area
Functional
Functional Region
Examples
• Airline hubs
- Intercontinental
Functional Region
Perceptual
• Based on people’s attitudes & emotions about
a place.
– Pick 1 example and write it down
– Ex.: “Dixie”- southern states or
– “The Big Apple”- NYC to some
• Boundaries may differ as people perceive or
see things differently.
Perceptual Region
Example
• The “South”
Perceptual Region
Example
• The “Bible Belt”
Example
• Muslim World
Ch. 9 Test Instructions
• Do the test on your own sheet of paper.
• DO NOT WRITE ON THE TEST SHEET
• This is an open notes test you may use the Cultural
Region Notes Packet & the notes on Types of Regions
you took just now on the test.
• Once you are finished you need to turn in your test
answers, the test page that you did not write on, and
the completed notes packet.
• If you have not completed the notes packet you may
do so during my tutorials. But you must still turn it in
today.