Situation

Today we went over the situation.  This is the other way that a place's location can be described.  Situation describes a place's location based on its location in relation to other places.  It does this by describing the location of an unfamiliar place by using the location of a place that is familiar to people.  the importance of a place can also be determined through this method.  For example, they may be more important because the places can be reached by other places.  an example of this that we used in class was Chicago.  this place's importance was raised because it is accessible by the St. Lawrence seaway that made it the furthest inland point that people could easily go to prior to railroads.  this method of describing where places are based on the location of other places is very useful and can be used to on  the macro, or world level, or on the micro, or local level, to easily help people locate other places