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How is a region defined? By climate? By the people? By whether or not its citizens have to put up with Time Warner?

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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by droughts they're the

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reason we stopped taking showers hey everybody's got to do their part right [Man standing in bath tub]

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well here's question which of the following characteristics cannot be used

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to delineate a region and here your potential answers...

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alright region zone there is oh my all words we use to describe our personal

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bubble seriously don't touch me all right but there are also actual terms [Man points to bubbles]

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that mean something very specific so what is the region not how about a if

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all the areas of a region are predominantly Hindu then that region is

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delineated by religion is a region not a region if that regions origin is [Girl standing by side of the road]

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religion and try to invent 10 times fast that that's about this done untangling

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your tongue there great well religion is definitely a characteristic that can be

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used to delineate a region Vatican City would probably be a little peeved [Pope stood beside Italy]

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otherwise so the answer can't be a how about be if all areas of a region speak

01:06

either English or French or both then that region is delineated by language

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like religion language is a characteristic that can be used to [Two men speaking foreign languages]

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delineate a region and usually a pretty noticeable one so bye-bye be should it

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be C well if all areas of a region suffer from annual drought then that

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regions delineated by climate so whether the weather be fine or whether the

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weather be not will weather the weather whatever the weather whether we like it [Man discussing weather]

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or not yeah we're really enjoying our tongue twisters today anyway a regions

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eliminated by climate is indeed a region meaning we might need a rain check on C [Woman standing in rain and man at the sunny beach]

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haha do we do there have a D if all areas of a region lie within certain

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latitude lines then that region is delineated by a physical location let's [Latitude lines appear over Earth]

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get physical physical..ask your parents she was the babe

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in the day all right but let's face it for the most part we live in the real

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world and the physical characteristics of that world are a pretty decent

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measure for delineation so we can forget about D which brings us to eat well

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seeing as we found choices a through D all to be valid characteristics for

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defining regions is the the answer that makes sense that's it

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it's there he is our winner now go ahead and find our address on our website and [Trophy for answer E appears]

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mail us a few dozen bottles of water seriously we're thirsty and kind of [Girl pouring bottle of water over head]

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smelly here in California we need all the help we can get

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