How do geographers describe where they are?

In class today Mr.Schick took awhile to get on veracross to take attendance, so the class basically slept. Everyone was in class today and that made Mr. Shick very happy. Today we were introduced to an important question "How do geographers describe where they are?"  Here are a few notes I took:

• Geographers can describe the location of a place by site, which is the physical character of a place
• Important site characteristics: climate, water sources, topography, soil, vegetation, latitude, and elevation
• Humans have the ability to modify the characteristics of a site

We also learned that most people in our class were born in Maryland, and I'm the only one who was born out of the country. Mr. Shick also talked about how when he came to Maryland that eating crabs was a weird phenomenon to him. How they just threw the crabs alive into a big pot of boiling water and then threw them on the table to smash. He was very freaked out at those facts, and it didn't help when Griffin told him that they threw spices at the crabs eyes so they would burn.