Description of Our Community

Location

Position on the Earth’s Surface

Absolute location

Latitude:

Longitude:

Relative location

Near what other geographical features (water, land features, natural resources, etc.):

 

Place

Physical and Human Characteristics

Physical characteristics
(landforms, water bodies, climate, soil, natural vegetation, animal life)

Human characteristics
(population density and composition, settlement and housing patterns, architecture, kinds of economic and recreational activities, transportation and communication networks, religious groups present, language, economic organizations, social groups, political organization)

uman/ Environment Interactions
How Humans Interact with Their Environment

How do people modify or adapt to their natural settings?
(shelter, clothing, food, ways of making a living, natural disasters, etc.)

How they use it? How they abuse it? How they improve it?

Movement

Humans Interacting on the Earth

People
(migration patterns to and from the community)

Products
(transportation lines coming into and leaving the community, national/global interdependence of natural resources or finished goods)

Ideas
(communication networks, schools and universities)

Regions

Describe Areas in Terms of Various Criteria

Governmental unit

Language group

Geographical or landform type

Economic characteristics

Recreational area