1. 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

2. Political (Cities & Borders) Physical (Topography)

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5. Mercator Interrupted Peters Robinson

6. 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

7. Social Organizations Religion Customs and Traditions Government Economic Systems Arts and Literature Language

8. 1. Autocracy: rule by one individual 2.Oligarchy: rule by a group 3.Democracy: rule by the people

9. 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