9-13-17 Blog

          Today in Mr. Schick's Honor's Human Geography class we started a new unit called "Thinking Geographically". The key questions of the unit consist of: How do geographers describe where things are? Why is each point on the Earth unique? Why are different places similar? And why are some actions unsustainable? We talked about how geographers use regions to characterize places so that we can better group them. We also learned what formal regions are. Formal regions are regions that show a high consistency in a cultural or physical attribute. For example, if a region coal mines a lot and there's coal mines all over the region it is considered a coal mining, formal region. Formal regions are used to categorize regions that share things in politics, economics, geography. We then were handed a work sheet with two maps on it and two word banks on it. We had to identify the regions on the map and write them down on the lines under the word bank. After I finished the work sheet the bell rang and it was a wrap on Honor's Human Geography for September 13th.

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