Cultural Geography

Today in Mr. Schick’s Human Geography class, we took notes on a power point that Mr. Schick presented on cultural geography. We discussed the characteristics of cultural geography which were language, religion, and ethnic heritage. These are parts of people’s everyday life. They are the ideas and themes which the group will teach to all members and they can also link or divide a region. For example, in the power point, there was a picture of the United States which had many different colors. It was a map of all the counties and what they called soft drinks. Most of the north central and west part of America called it pop. Most of the south central and east calls it coke. Whether they are referring to Sprite or actually coke, they call it all coke. New England and south west area calls it soda. There are many where they call it something else or the counties all around them call it one thing, but they have adopted another.