1.4-7 Match Activity

node

The main airport in a metropolitan area serves as a central point, or a ____, where many people and goods enter and leave the region.

formal

A map of ____ regions may show areas of the United States divided according to shared voting patterns identified by the Census Bureau.

environmental determinism

The belief that people living in a hot, dry environment will inevitably develop similar ways of life because the environment determines their choices is an example of this theory.

functional

A coffee shop attracts customers primarily from the neighborhoods surrounding its location. The area from which those customers are drawn is a ___ region.

distance decay

The number of people visiting a beach generally decreases as the distance from the beach increases.

flow

The movement of workers from their homes to downtown offices each morning is an example of ___.

site

Describing Peru by referencing its mountains, rivers, and climate would be describing its ___.

space-time compression

The spread of a new restaurant chain from one city to another becomes easier as improved transportation reduces the difficulties of branching out farther. This illustrates ___.

formal

A region in which most farms produce the same type of crop can be described as ___ region.

perceptual

A group of neighborhoods is identified as a ____ region because residents commonly describe themselves as belonging to the same community, even though the boundaries are not officially defined.

heterogeneous

A region contains many different cultural characteristics rather than one characteristic shared throughout the region is said to be _____.

possibilism

A student argues that people living in a desert may develop very different lifestyles because technology and culture allow them to overcome environmental limitations. This reflects ___.