• Characteristics of a place
• How has the environment affected people's lives?
• How have people changed the environment?
• Movement of people, goods & ideas from place to place

Culture

• People's way of life
• How do people act & express themselves?
• How are people organized?

• How people use their resources ?
• How do societies produce wealth?
• How do people get resources they need?

• System of laws in the society
• Who are the rulers/leaders?

• Belief in a god or gods
• Principles of right and wrong

• Inventions & discoveries
• Any new methods of doing things