Location

-Location can be identified in 3 ways
1. place names
- a toponym is the name given to a place on earth
- name derived from people of prominence, religious affiliation, physical features, or origins of its settlers
2. site
- site is the physical characteristics of a place
- characteristics include climate, water sources, topography, soil, vegetation, latitude, and elevation
3. situation
- a situation is the location of a point relative to other places
-region
- an area on earth defined by 1 or more distinctive characteristics is a region
- mostly applied at 2 scales
1. spanning political states
2. constrained within 1 political state
-derives its unified characteristics through the cultural landscape - a combo of cultural, religious, and physical features