Places can be natural (shaped by the environment and largely unchanged by humans) or built (constructed by humans)

Place influences our relationships and environmental and social qualities of a place influence the way we live.

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

Helps us to understand what is happening around us and to see the world as and to see the world as a dynamic place

Change in both time and space allows geographers to examine how environments develop, transform, or disappear

For example, something that affects a whole country, such as a severe drought, would involve a study at the national scale

Oil, coal, and natural gas – non-renewable (will one day run out)

Wind, forests, solar, and water – renewable (can be replaced or will replace themselves naturally)

Developing ways to ensure the Earth’s resources be used and managed responsibly so they can be maintained for future generations

National – Australian Government has begun to encourage sustainable use of energy by offering incentives to promote the use of solar panels

International – organisations such as the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) are working with fisheries and retailers to promote responsible and environmentally viable fishing practices around the world.

Geographers use this concept to better understand the links between places and people, and how these interconnections affect the environments and the way we live

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

The impact of environmental hazards on people can how the impacts of these hazards can be reduced

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

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

Space refers to the way that things are arranged 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

farms can be classified by how large it is in relation to the amount of food or fibre that it produces

extensive farming is farms that require a large amount of space

intensive farming are farms that can produce a large volume of food and fibre in a small are

farming influences by environmental factors such as temprature, soil fertility, and water

government task forces have identified the water that lies in rock layers (aquifiers) key to expanding intensive agriculture

crop yeild is the amount of crop (in Kg) that is grown per hectare and is used by farmers to measure how much they have grown

wide variations in natural features such as slopes, soil fertility, soil moisture and drainage

the commercial orginisation and operation of holidays and visits to places of intrest

tourism is increasing due to the ability to travel to more remote spots faster and safer than before, but now tourism has decreased by a large amount because of COVID-19, or corona virus

international tourism refers to a tourism that crosses national borders

inbound tourism is when a person from his/her home country travels to another country for not less than 24 hours and not more than few months. The purpose of the travel is mostly leisure and very seldom for business.

Domestic tourism is tourism involving residents of one country traveling only within that country

with increased travel, this causes cities to build more accomodation, causing geographical and environmantal damage

don't build as many accomodation buildings, instead of building across, build up, spread the tourism buisness to other areas to even the damage