Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Day 12-Geographers and locations


Today in class we learned about how geographers describe where locations are. Geographers can describe a location by its site. A site describes the physical characteristics of a location or region. Important characteristics of a site are climate, topography, water source, soil condition, vegetation, Lat and Long and finally elevation just to name a few. A wide variety of features make a place distinctive from other areas. Maryland and North Korea have the same latitude but different climate, topography, Sites that are near the water usually have larger populations than ones away from water because most areas were settled before fast ways of transportation because water is essential in many ways including drinking sanitation and trade. Humans can modify characteristics of a sight on purpose or not on purpose. We learned that the new parts of Manhattan doubled in size from 1626 to today. The double in size in the early days was done by sinking ships and covering them with trash from the original Manhattan area.

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