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Why do geographers study both the human and physical characteristics of places?
 
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Preview: ... e from its description alone? What makes one description easier or harder to guess than another?

Have students learn the words and sing “Home on the Range.” Discuss how the song describes a particular place. What kind of place is it? What are its physical and human characteristics? What other songs do the students know that describe particular places?

Make a list of common phrases that include the word “place” (for example, “to put someone in her place,” “a place for everything and everything in its place,” “if I were in your place,” “caught between a rock and a hard place”). Have students analyze how these phrases help define the word “place.” Do the phrases imply physical and human characteristics? If so, how? Why are we comfortable in some places but not in others? Ask the students to describe literal and figurative places in which they have found themselves and to describe whether they have been comfortable or uncomfortable in such places.

Divide students into five groups. Have each group choose a country. Tell each group that they will be playing the role of United States ambassador to that country. What kind of place is each country? What unique qualities must an ambassador possess in order to adequately represent the U.S. in ...

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