Do Now

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Do Now

• What are three things you like and dislike about
  living in Mississippi? (Total of 6 things)

Likes Dislikes

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Do Now 1

• Complete the Fast Facts about Mississippi WS
  using your book and/or internet on your phone.
  You will have 15 Minutes!
• It is on the brown book shelf in back of room!!

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• Nickname Magnolia State
• Capital Jackson
• Motto Virtute et armis (By valor and arms)
• of Counties 82 (you will know all of them ?)
• Admitted to the Union December 10, 1817
• Time Zone Central Standard
• Bird Mockingbird
• Flower Magnolia
• Fish Largemouth Bass
• Tree Magnolia
• Song Go Mississippi!
• Insect Honeybee
• Land Mammal White-Tailed Deer/Red Fox

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Quick facts in Chapter 1

1. North-South Distance is 350 miles
2. East-West Distance is 180 miles
3. Located between 30 and 34 degrees N latitude
4. Located between 88 and 91 degrees W longitude
5. Climate is humid subtropical
6. Average of 50 in. of precipitation each year
7. More than 220 frost free days
8. Annual temperature is 62 degrees Fahrenheit
9. Coldest month is January
10. Has Nine major and two minor river systems

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M-I-Crooked Letter-Crooked Letter!!!!!

• Living in the great state of Mississippi

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5 Themes of Geography to understand Mississippis
Natural Environment

• Location- every feature has a spot
• What is the location of Mississippi? There are
  many!!
• 2. Place- physical (climate, water resources,
  landforms) and human characteristics (languages,
  religions)
• What are some physical and human
  characteristics of MS?
• 3. Human-Environmental Interaction- yes it is
  what it says!
• How do we as Mississippians interact with our
  environment?
• 4. Movement- Ways we are linked with regions,
  cultures, people
• What feature of MS could help us to study
  movement?
• 5. Regions- Can have a single characteristic or a
  number of criteria
• Can you name any of Mississippis regions?

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Mississippis Geographic Regions
Delta
Hills
Piney Woods
Gulf Coast
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Location of Mississippi

• Location can be either relative or absolute
• Relative location- a place compared to other
  places
• Mississippi is bordered by?
• Mississippi is bounded by?
• Absolute location- precise location on Earth, use
  latitude, longitude, and GPS.
• What is the absolute location of Mississippi?

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Absolute Location

• Between 30 and 35 degrees North latitude
• Between 88 and 91 degrees West longitude

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Mississippis Natural Environment

• Climate
• Humid Subtropical Humid through most of the year
  and we see quite a lot of rain
• This climate affects a number of things
• Peoples movement- Snow birds coming south for
  year round activities (golf, fishing, the beach)
• Warmer climate also affected the growth of cotton
  and turned MS into an important cotton producing
  state

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Mississippis Natural Environment

• Temperature
• Average is 62
• Lowest temp. recorded in 1966 -19
• Highest temp. recorded in 1930 115
• January is the coldest month
• Precipitation
• Average is 52 inches a year
• Coastal counties receive more
• Most rainfall occurs in the winter
• Humidity- 76 on the coast, 70 northern counties

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Mississippis Natural Environment

• Natural Hazards
• Due to frequent weather changes
• Tornadoes spring and early summer (when warm air
  from south meets cool air from the north)
• Over the past 50 years-MS averages 24 a year
• Hurricanes June to October
• Two most powerful hurricanes in MS
• Camille in 1969
• Katrina in 2005

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Water Resources

• Surface water MS uses it for irrigation and
  electric power
• Major resource for the paper industry
• Ground Water By way of aquifers, it supplies
  water to most cities and towns

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Rivers

• Mississippi River
• Most of the Western border of the state
• Drains the interior of the United States from the
  Appalachians to the Rockies
• Much of it is navigable (boats)

• Nine Major River Systems
• Drain into the MS River
• Yazoo River
• Big Black
• Bayou Pierre-Coles Creek
• Homochitto River
• Drains South
• Noxubee-Tombigbee
• Pearl River
• Amite River
• Pascagoula River
• Biloxi-Wolf-Jourdan River

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Reservoirs

• Designed primarily to assist in flood control
• Six Major Reservoirs
• Pickwick Lake
• Arkabutla Lake
• Sardis Lake
• Enid Lake
• Grenada Lake
• Ross Barnett

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See also page 15 in your book!!!
Noxubee-Tombigbee River
Yazoo River
Big Black River
Pearl River
Pascagoula River
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Using both of the texts answer the following
questions

1. Explain using evidence from the text how a lack
   of snowfall in the Rocky Mountains could affect
   the economy in Mississippi.
2. Using textual evidence from the two texts,
   explain the effects and repercussions a drought
   could have on the Mississippi River.
3. Analyze how the Mississippi River has shaped
   American history and culture.

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Do you know your State???

1. What is the States nickname?
2. How many counties does MS have?
3. What is MS relative location?
4. What is the climate of MS?
5. Which part of MS receives the most rainfall?
6. Name the two most powerful hurricanes?
7. How do MSs towns and cities get water supply?
8. What are the five largest rivers?
9. Why were reservoirs built?
10. What is the greatest college in Mississippi??