1. Location: Location is the place where a person or thing is at, there are two types
a. relative
b. absolute
2. Place: Describes the human and physical characteristics of a location.
a. Physical-mountains, rivers, beaches, and animal and plant life of a place
b. Human- 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.
3. Huamn-Inviroment Interactions- How humands adapt to and modify the enviroment.
4. Movement: The moveing of not only pepole but ideas, foods, and religion.
5. 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.
a. Formal- official boundaries, such as cities, states, counties, and countries.
b. Functional- defined by their connections, for example, the circulation area for a major city area is the functional region of that paper.
c. Vernacular- 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.
