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Published on Feb 06, 2016

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Geographers study small places like communities and big places like states and countries.

Photo by Bob Jagendorf

The absolute location of a place is the exact location of the place. Your address is the absolute location of your house.

Photo by Onasill

The relative location of a place means where the place is in relation to other places.

Natural or Physical characteristics include landforms, bodies of water, vegetation, and climate

Important landforms of Michigan include peninsulas, islands, mountain ranges, and sand dunes.

Photo by sethoscope

Forests and orchards are important types of vegetation in Michigan. Michigan's climate has 4 seasons and influenced by Great Lakes.

Photo by Martin LaBar

Human characteristics are often connected to natural or physical characteristics. For example, people often build bridges across rivers and cities next to rivers.

Photo by Andrew Senay

Important natural resources of Michigan include trees, fertile soil, The Great Lakes, and other bodies of water and minerals.

Photo by ecstaticist

It is important for people to use natural resources wisely.

People modified the environment of Michigan by polluting the Great Lakes and rivers.

The Great Lakes are very important in moving goods within, to and out of Michigan.

Sometimes things mov into an area that people don't want like zebra mussles.

Photo by surrealis_uk

Michigan belongs to the U.S regions as the Midwest Region and the Great Lakes Region.

Photo by kevin dooley