Why do geographers use regions as a tool to understand and classify the planet?
Try to classify your community into as many formal and functional regions as possible. What characteristics are useful to classify your town or city?
Using a map of your campus or town, circle or identify those areas of town that you think are unsafe or where you are more cautious. Next, try to identify the characteristics of those areas. Which characteristics are the cause of your uncertainty or caution? If you have the chance, try to compare your map with your classmates.
Where is the Bible Belt in the United States? What variables would you use to try to determine its boundaries? Is data to support your ideas available? Where?
With what region of the country does your state identify? What characteristics do you think define this identification?
