1.7 Regional Analysis
ENDURING UNDERSTANDING (Overall Concept)
LEARNING OBJECTIVE (What I Must Be Able to Do)
ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE (Information I Must Know)
** SPS = Spatial Processes and Societal Change
QUIA PRACTICE
- SPS-1 Geographers analyze complex issues and relationships with a distinctively spatial perspective
LEARNING OBJECTIVE (What I Must Be Able to Do)
- SPS-1.A Describe different ways that geographers define regions.
ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE (Information I Must Know)
- SPS-1.A.1 Regions are defined on the basis of one or more unifying characteristics or on patterns of activity.
- SPS-1.A.2 Types of regions include formal, functional, and perceptual/vernacular.
- SPS-1.A.3 Regional boundaries are transitional and often contested and overlapping.
- SPS-1.A.4 Geographers apply regional analysis at local, national, and global scales.
** SPS = Spatial Processes and Societal Change
QUIA PRACTICE