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These 4 unique characteristics help categorize and divide regions.

What are physical, cultural, political and economical?

The United States has these 2 coasts that help to divide the

country into regions.

What are the east coast and west coast?

The division of the rich and the poor is an example of this type of

characteristic that divides regions.

What are economics/What is an economic characteristic?

The division of democrats and republicans are an example of this type of characteristic that creates

regions.

What are politics/What is a political characteristic?

Describe 3 ways that Hauser has regions.

What are floors, grade levels, teams, advisories, subjects, etc?

The movement of goods, resources and services. (Clue word: an

exchange.)

What is trade?

When a country needs goods, resources, and knowledge from

other parts of the world.

What is interdependence?

The belief that one country or culture is better than another.

What is ethnocentrism?

People looking for a better way of life or possibly forced into a new

way of life.

What is migration?

The very recent removal at Hauser of this chemical that can be damaging to your lungs is a

positive human modification to the environment.

What is asbestos?

The recent removal of the dam on this local river is an example of

Human-Environment Interaction.

What is the Des Plaines River?

This consequence of releasing toxic gases is a major issue that has an effect on our respiratory system.

What is air pollution?

The construction of these in rivers is one way humans have modified our environment to control water

flow.

What are locks and dams?

This consequence of human-environment interaction involves the destruction of oceans, rivers,

lakes and seas.

What is water pollution?

This human characteristic is a tool used to exchange thoughts and

ideas between people. Some countries share this, but many

have their own.

What is language?

The Metra Rail would be an example of this human

characteristic found in Riverside.

What is transportation?

A common faith or belief system shared by people in a place.

What is religion?

This physical characteristic is used to describe the weather of a

certain place over a period of several years.

What is climate?

The Rocky Mountains would be an example of land forms that

describe this type of characteristic in a place.

What is a physical characteristic?

This imaginary line divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

What is the equator?

This tool, used to study, describe and find location, is usually created on a flat piece of paper. You may find one

of these that portrays a city, a country or a continent.

What is a map?

This imaginary line divides the world into east and west.

What is Prime Meridian?

The exact location; Ex: Riverside is located at 42º N and 88º W.

What is absolute location?

A description of a location; Ex: Riverside is a suburb west of

Chicago, right next to Brookfield.

What is relative location?