Maps Notes Part 5

• location is identified in three ways:
• place name
• a toponym is a name given o a place on earth
• names derived from people of prominence, religious affiliation, physical features, or origins of its settlers
• site
• the site is a physical character of a place
• characteristics include climate, water sources, topography, soil, vegetation, latitude, and elevation
• Situation
• the situation is the location of a place relative to other places
• region: a unique area
• an area on earth defined by one or more distinctive characteristics is a region
• two scales:
• spanning political states
• constrained within one political state
• a region derives its unified character through the cultural landscape - a combination of cultural, religious, and physical features
• culture us the agent, the natural area the medium, the cultural landscape is the result