Integrative discipline that brings together the physical and human dimensions of th world in the study people, places, and environments. The science of earth and place/ the study of Earth's natural environment and how it influences people.

Geography is an integrative discipline because trait teaches content, skills, and thinking processes by taking advantage of natural connection among it.

It is important to know about people and places around the world, geography can help us effectively face the challenges of our time.

Location: Position on Earth's surface/ Where are we on Earth's surface?

Place: Physical and human characteristics/ Physical characteristics include rivers, lakes, mountains, wildlife, sold, precipitation, beaches, etc. Human characteristics deal with the changes that people have made to the environment.

Relationships within places: Humans and environment/ Physical features of location affect people in different ways. How people have been changed by the environment, how the environment has been changed by people, and how people depend on the environment.

Movement: Humans interacting on Earth/ How they are connected with and depended on other regions and other people in the world.

Regions: How they form and change/ an area on Earth's surface whose characteristics make it different form other areas.