• Location - Position on the earth’s surface

• Place - Describes the unique physical and human characteristics

• Interaction between People & Environment – How humans modify, adapt and depend on the environment• Movement – Exchanging of goods and ideas between people on Earth

• Region – Physical characteristics that distinguishes a specific area

• Political (Cities & Borders)

• Physical (Topography)

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• Mercator

• Interrupted

• Peters

• Robinson

• Culture: the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group• Focus on the way in which participants in the world become conscious of and give meaning to living in the world as a single place

• Social Organizations

• Religion

• Customs and Traditions

• Government

• Economic Systems

• Arts and Literature

• Language

1. Autocracy: rule by one individual

2.Oligarchy: rule by a group

3.Democracy: rule by the people

1. Traditional – people produce mostly what they need; hunter-gatherer, farming

2. Command – government controls production of goods

3. Market – people control what is produced by buying and selling goods and services

4. Mixed – government and people share in economic decision making