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Utah Studies The Geography of Utah

Utah Studies The Geography of Utah. Students will understand the basics of Utah’s Geography. What is Geography? . The study of the Earth’s physical features and how people and places affect each other. How does Utah’s geography affect its people?.

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Utah Studies The Geography of Utah

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  1. Utah StudiesThe Geography of Utah Students will understand the basics of Utah’s Geography

  2. What is Geography? • The study of the Earth’s physical features and how people and places affect each other. • How does Utah’s geography affect its people?

  3. Where is Utah located?Which of these is true? • Utah is on planet Earth • Utah is in the Northwest Hemisphere. • Utah is in the western part of the United States • https://maps.google.com/?ll=46.00132,-102.62421&z=4&t=h

  4. What are the physical features of Utah? • These are Natural to the environment. Mountains • Wasatch and Uintah Mountains • Tallest mountain in Utah? • Kings Peak • What do people do there?

  5. What are the physical features of Utah? • Rivers • Colorado • Green River • 730 Miles long

  6. What are the physical features of Utah? • Lakes • Great Salt Lake • Largest saltwater lake in the western hemisphere • Bear Lake • Lake Powell • Utah Lake

  7. How do physical features of our state affect the people? • People start communities where physical features provide protection against enemies and weather. • What do people need to live? • How do physical features make life more enjoyable?

  8. What are the land regions in Utah? • There are 3. • Rocky Mountain Region • Great Basin Region • Wide bowl shaped area of Earth surface • Colorado Plateau Region • A high, wide, flat landform a natural feature of the Earths surface

  9. What do each of the land regions provide? • Snow • Recreation • Minerals

  10. Physical features of Great Basin • Large and Arid • being without moisture; extremely dry • Most of the large cities in Utah are on the edge • Salt Lake City • Water flows from the mountains to our lakes. • These are called tributaries

  11. Physical Features of the Colorado Plateau • What is a plateau? • Elevated large flat area of land • Colorado plateau receives very little rain • Rivers flow from here to the Colorado river then to the Pacific Ocean. These are called tributaries. • Water that flows into a larger river or lake • Colorful rock formations • Zion’s, Bryce Canyon are all in this area. • Sedimentary rock: rock formed by the deposit of minerals or organic matter • Mining for natural resources • Water, forests minerals, stone, soil that occur in nature and have economic value.

  12. How do people use land? • National government owns 60% of the land. • Why? • State of Utah also owns a lot of land. • Government Land is called public land • State and National parks are public land.

  13. Who Controls the public land? • The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) • Congress • They set aside wilderness areas to preserve the beauty of our state. • Trust Lands • Money for schools • In the news?

  14. What is Utah’s Climate like? • What does climate mean? • Climate is the weather pattern of place over a period of many years. • What things affect the climate? • Distance from the equator • Elevation • Distance from the ocean • More extreme temperatures and weather

  15. Why does it matter? • Farmers use melted snow, water, to irrigate crops • Irrigation the artificial watering of land to help in the production of crops • Need it to feed domestic animals • Tamed and raised by humans • Water keeps us alive • Fishing

  16. What plants and animals live in Utah? • There are a lot and it depends where you live. • What wildlife have you seen in Utah? • What does indigenous mean? Native or natural to the state

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