The document provides instructions for students to complete a geography assignment where they identify 3 locations they want to visit and 1 given location (Ada, Michigan). Students are instructed to open a Pages document, insert a table with 6 columns and 4 rows, and fill in each cell with information about the location's absolute and relative location, region, physical characteristics, and human-environment interactions based on the 5 themes of geography. The completed table is then to be saved, uploaded to Moodle, and printed for their notes.

1. Where in the World?
Where are 3 places in the world you want
to go?

3. Open a Pages Document
 Look for the grey ink well in your applications
folder.
 1. Create a new landscape document.
 2. Place a title at the top of your paper - “3 Places I
want to visit.”
 3. Insert a table with 6 columns and 4 rows.

4. It should look like this …

5. Add the locations you
want to visit here ...
Location #1
ALASKA
Location #2
BAHAMAS
Location #3
ZION N.P.

6. 5 Themes of Geography
How do you find places and people around the world?
Complete the chart...

7. Location
LOCATION
(Absolute)
#1
#2
#3

8. Location
 How do you know where you are?
 Measured in absolute location and relative location
 Absolute Location = provides a definite reference to
locate a place
 use latitude & longitude or street address
 Relative location describes a place with respect to
its environment and its connection to other places.

9. Region
Location Region
(Formal)

10. Region
 What makes a place unique?
 Regions have some sort of characteristic that unifies the
area.
 Formal regions are those that are designated by official
boundaries, such as cities, states, counties, and countries.
 Functional regions are defined by their connections. For
example, the circulation area for a major city area is the
functional region of that paper.
 Vernacular regions are perceived regions, such as "The
South," "The Midwest," or the "Middle East;" they have
no formal boundaries but are understood in our of the
world.

11. Place
Location Region Place
(Physical
Characteristics
)

12. Place
 What makes this area different from other areas?
 Place describes the human and physical
characteristics of a location.
 Physical characteristics include a description such
things as the mountains, rivers, beaches,
topography, and animal and plant life of a place.
 Human characteristics include the human-designed
cultural features of a place, from land use and
architecture to forms of livelihood and religion to
food and folk ways to transportation and
communication networks

13. Human & Environment Interactions
Location Region Place Human
Interactions

14. Human & Environment
Interactions
 How have people changed the landscape?
 Humans shape the landscape through their
interaction with the land.
 This has both positive and negative effects on the
environment.

15. Movement
Location Region Place Human Movement
Interaction

16. Movement
 How do people and goods travel from place to place?
 Ideas, fads, goods, resources, and communication all
travel distances.
 This studies movement and migration across the planet.

17. Complete the Table
1. PUT YOUR NAME, NUMBER, CLASS, on your paper.
2. FILL IN THE INFORMATION for you 3 places you want to
visit ON TABLE .
3. MAKE SURE box EACH IS A COMPLETE SENTENCE.
4. Add Ada, Michigan in the final row and fill in for this location
as well.
5. When completed SAVE THE TABLE IN YOUR SOCIAL
STUDIES FOLDER
6. UPLOAD THE TABLE TO MOODLE.
7. PRINT OUT 1 COPY AND TAPE IT IN YOUR NOTES