Class 10/2, Regions and Cultural Landscape

Today in class we discussed new terms and started to create regions for the states based off whether they were republican or democratic in the 2004, 2008, 2012 elections.

Notes:

• Regions and the cultural landscape- a sense of place humans may possess
• Region- an area of Earth defined by one or more distinctive characteristics 
• Cultural Landscape- an area fashioned from nature by a combination of both physical and human characteristics that uniquely define places and area
• Several neighboring countries that share important features can be a region
• Regions can range in size from anything larger than a point to anything smaller than the planet
• Ex: Chicago and Latin America
• “Culture is the agent, the natural area the medium, the cultural landscape is the result.” Ultimately, Sauer and other geographers believed that it was the combination of both physical and human characteristics that uniquely defined places and areas."
• A cultural landscape is made up of "a combination of cultural features such as language and religion, economic features such as agriculture and industry, and physical features such as climate and vegetation."