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Location describes where something is.
There are two types of location - Absolute or Exact location and Relative Location
Place describes the physical or human characteristics that make a location unique.
Areas that share common characteristics. Physical and climate regions vary in the world and especially in North America.
Explains how and why people and things move and are connected. This includes the movement of people, goods, and ideas. Nomadic tribes would follow their food source. As it depleted in one area they would move to another.
Describes the relationship between people and their environment. Throughout history, people have adapted to and changed their natural surroundings. Native Americans in the Southwest interacted through the process of irrigation.
How have YOU adapted to and changed your natural surroundings?
Can you think of at least two ways?
Geography is the study of people, their environments and their resources.
from Greek geographia "description of the earth"
Absolute or Exact Location is measured by lines of Latitude and Longitude.
geo = "earth"
+
graphia = "description"
Geography
from Mamma Lombardi's - that's Relative location!
Dunkin' Donuts is right across the street from . . .
Give me an example of relative location using the map of our fair town of downtown Holbrook.
Study of people
The study of
People's Resources
The study of
People's Environments
Longitude measures distance East and West of the Prime Meridian.
Latitude measures distance North and South of the Equator.
Relative location is the location of a place in relation to some other place.
Let's look at an example!
Where can we find the
closest Dunkin' Donuts?
Then
Now?