1. Why do geographers use regions as a tool to understand and classify the planet?
2. Try to classify your community into as many formal and functional regions as possible. What characteristics are useful to classify your town or city?
3. 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.
4. 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?
5. On a blank outline map of the United States, draw and label the culture regions that exist as you perceive them in your own mental mapping of the country. Compare your map to those of your classmates. Discuss why you have drawn similar or different regions.
6. With what region of the country does your state identify? What characteristics do you think define this identification?
7. Describe the chief topographical features of your community. Look at a physical map of your state. What are the larger topographical regions that your community is a part of? How does being part of the larger topographical region affect your community?
