Location Where is it Includes ABSOLUTE and RELATIVE

Location (Where is it? ) • Includes ABSOLUTE and RELATIVE location • Absolute location is a places point on a globe or map • Relative location is the places location compared to another place

Examples of Absolute Location • Street address: The White House is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. • Use Latitude and Longitude: Miami is 25 degrees N and 30 degrees W

Examples Of Relative Location • Atwater is 30 miles from Modesto • The United States is East of Japan • Mississippi is in the Southern United States

Place • A place is described by its physical and/or human characteristics (What is it like? ) • physical - features including landforms, climate, and vegetation • human - people who live there and their culture: People from New York speak with a Northern accent.

Movement (How does information get moved around? ) • As people, goods, and ideas move from place to place, they can change a places characteristics • ex. – Internet, Trains, Boats, Cars, Walking, etc.

Human-Environmental Interaction • How do people use their environment? • How have they changed it? • How have people responded to these changes?

Regions (How is it like other places? ) • Set of places that have similar features • ex - Chinatown is a region of San Francisco • ex – The Southeast region of the US loves college football.

How can I remember this? Just as MR. HELP! M=Movement R=Region H=Human E=Environment Interaction L=Location P=Place