For homework for April 3 please see previous post.

Notes on region:

Link to ecozone:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecozone#WWF_Ecozones


What is a region?

Region An area having some characteristic or characteristics that distinguish it from other areas. A territory of interest to people and for which one or more distinctive traits are used as the basis for its identity.

(from: http://www.geographic.org/glossary.html#R)


Physiographic region (find photos) http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/landscapes/physio_e.php

Regions can be physical (environmental, surface water-based, ), cultural (historical, religious, tourist) and political (eg. political units such as sovereign states; subnational units such as provinces, counties, townships, territories, etc; and multinational groupings, including formally defined units such as the European Union, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and NATO, as well as informally defined regions such as the Third World, Western Europe, and the Middle East).

Here are regions of Canada: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_of_Canada