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AP Human Geography›Unit 1: Thinking Geographically›Thinking Geographically

Human–Environment Interaction and Regions

Environmental determinism and possibilism describe how people and environments shape each other; regions can be formal, functional, or perceptual.

Determinism vs. possibilism
Formal, functional, perceptual regions
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Human–Environment Interaction and Regions

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Also called: possibilism, types of regions