Manny Henrie's List: Geography

• Location can be absolute or relative.
• Absolute location provides a definite reference to locate a place.

  • What is longitude and latitude mean?
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• Relative location describes a place with respect to its environment and its  connection to other places.
• Physical characteristics
• Physical characteristics
• describes the human and physical characteristics of a location.
• Physical characteristics
• mountains, rivers, beaches, topography, and animal and plant life of a place.
• Human characteristics include the human-designed cultural features of a place,  from land use and architecture to forms of livelihood and religion to food and  folk ways to transportation and communication networks.
• how humans adapt to and modify the environment

  • What are some ways we modify the environment?
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• movement and migration across the planet

  • What does migration mean?
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• Region divides the world into manageable units for geographic study. Regions  have some sort of characteristic that unifies the area. Regions can be formal,  functional, or vernacular.

  • What does formal, functional, or vernacular mean?
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• rmal regions are those that are designated by official boundaries, such as  cities, states, counties, and countries.

  • What formal regions are the South Western School District located?
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• Functional regions are defined by their connections. For example, the  circulation area for a major city area is the functional region of that paper.
• Vernacular regions are perceived regions, such as "The South," "The Midwest," or  the "Middle East;" they have no formal boundaries but are understood in our mental maps of the world.

  • What vernacular region do we live in?
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