A place is a part of the Earth’s surface that is identified and given meaning by people

• Places can be natural (shaped by the environment and largely unchanged by humans)

For example, a geographer visiting Namchee Bazaar would use this to help understand why people choose to live in this challenging environment and how they overcome these challenges.

Space refers to the way that things are arranged on the Earth’s surface

• Location – where things are located on the earth’s surface
  

• Organisation – how and why things are arranged and managed on the Earth’s surface by people
  

• Spatial distribution – the shapes and patterns in which things are arranged on the Earth’s surface
  

The living and non-living components and elements that make up an area, and the ways they are organised into a system

• the ways in which different groups of people perceive and use the natural environment and why these perceptions differ

• the ways in which people change the environment and how these changes can be managed

• the impact of environmental hazards on people and how the impacts of these hazards can be reduced.