Class 9/13, New Unit Main Points

Today in class we started our new unit. It is called "Thinking Geographically". The key questions for this units are the following:

• How do geographers describe where they are?
• Why is each point on earth unique?
• Why are different places similar?
• Why are some actions unsustainable?

The main points that Mr. Schick had us copy down were:
Regions are a highly contested yet important concept in the human geography and can be studied as they relate to space, place, and location. Regions allow us to generalize about a common characteristic so we can better group them.
A formal region is an area with a high level of consistency in a certain cultural or physical attribute. Formal regions are uniform or homogeneous areas where everyone in that region shares common attributes or traits like language, climate or political system. Formal regions are primarily used to determine and outline political, cultural and economic regions.
We also completed a map that we labeled the regions using a work bank.