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melly21297 · **on:** Aug 7, 2018

This text is primarily a regional geography book because the majority of chapters in it cover the geographies of a specific region of North America.

Only three of the chapters in the book focus on thematic geography instead of on regional geography. List the titles of these three chapters and make an argument that they are, indeed, more thematic than regional in scope by browsing the outline of the contents of each one.

Question 2

Geographers often use the concept of scale to analyze different parts of the Earth.

Using Canada, the United States, or Greenland as the focus of your answer to this question, select at least three examples of particular regions or places located in North America that help illustrate different spatial scales.

coreycathey · **Reply #1 on:** Aug 7, 2018

Answer to Question 1

The three thematic chapters are North America's Environmental Setting, Historical Settlement of North America, and The North American Political Economy. These three chapters focus on processes that impact the entire region of North America and in particular the factors that produce similarity and difference across the region. For example, Chapter 2 covers the climatic processes that produce particular patterns of temperature, wind, and precipitation in particular regions. These thematic chapters are important to understanding that although the regions of North America are distinctive, they are also linked through these broader processes.

Answer to Question 2

Examples include neighborhoods, cities, counties, states, geographical regions, linguistic regions, and cultural regions. Any answer that gives three good examples of different scales is acceptable. These scales could be a matter of political boundaries, economic regions, cultural regions, or any unifying element. Examples of large-scale regions within North America could include the regions illustrated in Figures 1.7, 1.8, or 1.9 . Examples of city regions would include large metro regions such as New York, the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Chicago, Toronto, Dallas, and so on. Within cities students might name particular neighborhoods, or individual municipalities within a larger metro region.