Day 13-Situations and locations

Today in class we learned about situations and describing locations. A situation is how geographers describe locations based off other locations. An example of this is describing the area of bel-air. Belair can be described and located by saying the locations around it such as how far it is away from Baltimore. Another way Belair can be described is by saying that it is in Maryland and in Harford county which is used to tell the general area like the last one with Baltimore. The next thing we learned was the main reason why Chicago is so big and has a huge population is because early in the united states it was the farthest inland that you can go by boat. The reason that was so important was because of the very good farmland around it. Chicago was the entrance to the west because a lot of railroads were built to make it easier to move food and other materials.