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Thinking about PlaceHow do Geographers Describe Where Things
Are?
• Toponyms
• Site & Situation
• Mathematical Location
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Toponym = Place Name
What do toponyms tell us about a particular location? - and the people who gave it the name!
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Looking at the toponyms for these two counties in Colorado, what can you learn about the people who named the towns, counties,
rivers, etc.?
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Beyond toponyms: another way of identifying a location and making it distinct is site and situation.
Site = the unique physical characteristics of a particular location
• Climate, landforms, etc., are physical characteristics
• A location’s site changes very little over time
Situation = the relationship between a particular location and other locations
• How is a particular location connected with others via highways, railroads, seaborn trade, telecommunications, etc.?
• Situation can change drastically over time! - Give some examples
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The image below is focused on Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.Describe, as best you can, the site and situation of Quebec City.
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The image below is centered on Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.Describe, as best you can, the site and situation of Quebec City
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The image below is centered on Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.Describe, as best you can, the site and situation of Quebec City
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Mathematical Location:A Precise Location on the Earth’s Surface
• Also know as absolute location
• Coordinates given for a location can be very precise
• Not used by most people when describing a location
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Longitude
• Is measured from the Prime Meridian (0°) to 180°
• The Prime Meridian runs through a section of London
• Longitude helps determine location east and west from the Prime Meridian
• All lines of longitude meet at the poles and are farthest apart at the equator
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Latitude
• Lines of latitude run east - west around the Earth’s surface
• The equator is 0° and the lines of latitude determine the distance from the equator
• Lines of latitude are parallel and thus never meet
• You move about 70 miles on the Earth’s surface for every 1° of latitude
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Thinking about the three ways of identifying place, what are the strengths and weaknesses of each?
• Toponym
• Site & Situation
• Mathematical