a discussion of SITE

the Rocky Mountains of Colorado

After learning about place and region, today our regular HG section was presented with two other ways geographers describe the location of a place: site (the physical character of a place) and situation (the location of a place relative to other places). Class discussion centered around site.

Important site characteristics include:

• climate
• water sources
• topography
• soil 
• vegetation
• latitude
• elevation
  

  

  a corn field in Nebraska