Looking at the Land: Creating Regions

Hello Researchers:

Read the article below and answer the questions that follow.  Click on each part to enlarge.

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Questions:

1)  What features can be used to organize land into regions?

2)  Countries are ______________  regions.

3) Define the word economy.

4)  Use boundary and region in two sentences about ways of organizing the Western Hemisphere.

5)  What type of map would you use to show baseball fields in Brooklyn?

Art Activity:

Draw how New York City might look in an ariel photograph and on a map.  Explain the similarities and differences.