Geography 2010A/B Midterm: Geo Midterm 1 Notes

• School: Western University
• Department: Geography
• Course: Geography 2010A/B
• Professor: Mark Moscicki

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Lecture 1: regions of canada: region: (cid:862)a(cid:374) area of the earth(cid:859)s surfa(cid:272)e defi(cid:374)ed (cid:271)(cid:455) it(cid:859)s disti(cid:374)(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) a(cid:374)d/or (cid:374)atural (cid:272)hara(cid:272)teristi(cid:272)s(cid:863, geo greek (cid:449)ord for (cid:862)earth(cid:863, ecumene: the densely inhabited core of a country. Cultural: vegetation, climate, soil, language, income, economic activity, places categorized on the basis of, based on the interaction, the various. Functional uniformity, the presence or absence of an attribute ex. French speaking regions would be formal because they are defined on the basis of the uniformity of that attribute. Boundaries: there are (cid:374)o (cid:862)a(cid:271)rupt(cid:863) (cid:271)ou(cid:374)daries i(cid:374) the real world, boundaries between regio(cid:374)s are a(cid:272)tuall(cid:455) (cid:272)alled (cid:862)tra(cid:374)sitio(cid:374) zo(cid:374)es(cid:863) parts of the regions interact with each other, ex. If a group of cities are served by a certain air line and one city gets cut off, now that city will no longer be part of that functional region. Transition zones: tree line in canada, the trees in the.