Places and Region: Place describes the features that make a site unique. regionsareareasthat share common characteristics. A place for defined by its distinctive climate and plant life.
Physical Systems: • Natural changes
– How things like hurricanes, volcanoes, and glaciers shape and change the earth’s surface
• Communities of plant and animals
– depend on the one another and their surroundings for survival
Human Systems: Movement is how things move from place to place. (This can be movement of people, ideas and/or beliefs, and goods.) Describes how people have shaped our world.
Environment and Society: How humans effect the environment – Good effects- planting trees for oxygen
– Bad effects-pollution from industries
• How the environment effects human
– Good effects- growing crops on the side of the mountain – Bad effects- the weather effects the clothing and shelter
The uses of geography: • Understand the relationships among people, places, and environments over time
• Understand the past and prepare for the future
