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Name Date INTERACTIVE SUMMARY CHAPTER 1, LESSON 2 Looking at the Land Creating Regions To study the Western Hemisphere, people organize it into regions. A region includes places with one or more features in common, such as an area where many people farm or an area with many mountains. A political region, such as a country, has a single government. Political regions are separated by boundaries, or borders. Economic regions are places where many people do the same kind of work, such as fishing. Because regions are defined in different ways, the same place can be in more than one region. Geographic Tools Maps and globes are tools that people use to understand geography. Maps may show political, physical, or thematic information. As technology improves, so do geographic tools. Satellites can be used to make more accurate and detailed maps. New tools such as the Global Positioning System (GPS) and the Geographic Information System (GIS) combine satellite networks and computers to better guide us and to learn new things about Earth. Map Flat picture showing Earth's surface, or part of it Advantages: Easy to carry and store, can put many maps together, can show varied information Globe Round model of entire Earth Advantages: Most accurate representation of Earth, can be political or physical Aerial Photograph Photograph of an area of Earth's surface taken from an airplane Advantages: Can show exactly what a part of Earth's surface looks like Satellite Photograph Photograph of an area of Earth's surface taken from orbit Advantages: Can show a larger area of Earth's surface than an aerial photograph All-in-One Practice Book © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company 5 Find and underline a form of each vocabulary word. region noun, an area that includes places with one or more features in common boundary noun, the edge of a region economy noun, a system people use to produce goods and services satellite noun, an object sent into space to circle Earth What kind of region is a country? Circle the sentence that tells the answer. What new tools rely on satellites and computers? Highlight the sentence that tells the answer. SKILL Reading Charts Which box tells why people would choose to look at Earth by using a globe? Circle the correct box. Use with The United States, Canada, and Latin America