The question
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________ Regions and scale: formal, functional and perceptual regions (7 points)
(A) Define Define a formal region. [1 point]
Define means: Give the specific meaning of the term, in your own words, not an example of it.
(B) Identify Identify the type of region formed by the area from which workers commute each day into one city. [1 point]
Identify means: Give the information asked for: a word or short phrase can earn the point, with no reasons needed.
(C) Describe Describe the edges of most regions. [1 point]
Describe means: Give the relevant characteristics: what it is like, where and how much. A name alone earns nothing.
(D) Explain Explain why people draw the edges of a perceptual region, such as "the South" in the United States, in different places. [1 point]
Explain means: Say how or why, with every link of the chain: a cause, then because or so, then its effect, tied to the place or data asked about.
(E) Compare Compare how a formal region and a functional region are defined. [1 point]
Compare means: Give a similarity or a difference and say it about both things, not one.
(F) Explain Explain how one type of region can be studied at two different scales of analysis, using a real example at each scale. [1 point]
Explain means: Say how or why, with every link of the chain: a cause, then because or so, then its effect, tied to the place or data asked about.
(G) Explain the degree Explain the degree to which regions are useful tools for geographers, even though their edges are often contested. [1 point]
Explain the degree means: State the degree first (to a high, moderate or low degree), then explain why with evidence.