Geography 2010A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Central Canada
28 Mar 2018
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Regionalism = it is the division of a large area into different parts (some countries are more prone to regionalism than others canada is very prone to regionalism); other include: usa, They are huge in terms of land area) Region = a disti(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374) area of earth(cid:859)s surfa(cid:272)e; it has distinguishing human or natural characteristics that set it apart from other areas. The boundaries of regions are related to faultlines. They are differences between two different areas whether it be geographical, cultural, et(cid:272) . Provincially defined region: choosing an area of provinces (eg. atlantic canada) and describing the area, analyzing the economy, studying the demographics, understanding the physical geography of the area. Categorization of land surface: classify the land into chunks that have similar characteristics. Uniform region: it is named after a characteristic where all locations in the region have similarities in that particular characteristic (ex. Vegetation region = grassland, desert, ice, (cid:373)ou(cid:374)tai(cid:374), et(cid:272) )
