APHUG 1.2

Flashcards about culture, political, and environmental regions, functional regions, location, site, and situation.

Culture regions

Tend to have fuzzy borders.

Political regions

Boundaries are well finite and well defined.

Environmental region

Boundaries are transitional and measurable.

Ecotone

The environmental transition zone between two bioregions.

Functional regions (nodal regions)

Areas that have a central place, or node, that is a focus or point of origin that expresses some practical purpose.

Market areas

A type of functional region.

Intervening opportunity

An attraction at a shorter distance that takes precedence over an attraction that is far away.

Vernacular regions

Based upon the perception or collective mental map of the regions residents.

Absolute location

Defines a point or place on the map using coordinates such as latitude and longitude.

Prime Meridian

0 degrees longitude and runs through Great Britain because the means to accurately calculate longitude at sea was developed by the British royal navy.

Equator

0 degrees latitude.

Relative location

Refers to the location of a place compared to a known place or geographic feature.

Site

Refers to the physical characteristics of a place.

Site and Situation

Locational concepts that work together.