we’re more than just desert, you know… geographical zone: a region with a distinct climate,...
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WHAT DOES ARIZONA LOOK LIKE?
We’re more than just desert, you know…
ARIZONA IS A LAND OF DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHICAL ZONES
Geographical Zone: A region with a distinct
climate , landforms and plant and animal populations.
Arizona has the following Zones: Desert also known as “Basin and Range” Mountain also known as the “Transition Zone” Plateau also known as “Colorado Plateau”
WHY DO “ZONES” MATTER IN SOCIAL STUDIES?
Geographical Zones determine how you live. What you eat What your home is like What you do for a job What your culture is like
No other single factor influences the development of human cultures across the globe as much as Geographical Zones.
WHAT DO THE HOMES SAY ABOUT THE ZONES?
PACIFIC NORTHWEST GREAT PLAINS
ENGLISH HOME BY THE SEA AUSTRALIAN HOME BY THE SEA
ARIZONA ZONES
Any Smartboard volunteers?
Desert Mountain
Plateau
LIFE QUESTIONS IN THE ZONE
What would you eat? Where or how would you get water? What would your shelter look like? What kind of clothing would you have? How would you measure wealth? How much space would you need to
survive? What kind of community would you
need or want? (Family, Tribe, City)
WATER AND SETTLEMENT
Which two zones have the most water?
Create arrows to identify the water flow using a colored pencil.
Circle the reservoirs on this map using a colored pencil.
Compare the locations of cities with the location of rivers and reservoirs. WHAT DO YOU FIND?
LIFE IN THE DESERT
LIFE IN THE SONORAN DESERT
Maricopa, Pima, Papago, Tohono O’ Odham
Quickest route through Arizona. First Railroad
Scant Resources (water, wood, animals) ARID CLIMATE
Small communities, tied to water sources
Mineral Wealth brought Europeans, Spanish and Mexicans learned to raise cattle in grasslands
WHAT HAPPENED?
First area to be settled by Europeans
Spanish Ranches, then Mexican
Mexicans pushed Natives out
Freighters to California, then railroads
After Mexican-American war, American industry moved in
Americans pushed Mexicans out
LIFE IN THE MOUNTAINS
LIFE IN THE MOUNTAINS
Sinagua and Yavapai-semi mobile, stayed near fertile streambeds. Small communities.
Plentiful water
Thin, poor soil. Fine for cattle, but easily overgrazed.
Plenty of mineral wealth.
WHAT HAPPENED?
1863- GOLD! Industrialists from outside AZ came to places like Jerome and Prescott and pushed out Native American tribes.
“For the first time in Arizona’s history, non-Indians came to the mountainous interior and stayed.”
Small scale mining until the Railroad connected Prescott in 1893
Railroad made mining and cattle possible because it moved the materials out of AZ to be sold
LIFE 0N THE PLATEAU
LIFE 0N THE PLATEAU
Navajo and some Apache. More Apache, Sinagua and Yavapai moved into area in 1870’s…WHY?
Temperate climate due to higher elevation.
Terrain makes large scale farming difficult.
Full of mineral wealth.
Well suited for industrial mining and logging
WHAT HAPPENED?
Spanish or Mexicans had not settled in Northern Arizona in any real numbers
Mexican-American War brought U.S. into contact with the Navajo.
Within 20 years, Canyon de Chelly had been destroyed
Railroads connected Northern Arizona to San Francisco (Lumber, Gold, Copper, and Dollars)
Arizona became more American than Mexican
CREATE A NARRATIVELook at your landform and water maps. Create a narrative a describing how the following people’s lives would have changed with the arrival of the Railroad.1. Bob, a cattle rancher living near
Tucson2. Sika, a Yavapai living near
Prescott3. Victoria, a tourist going from New
York to CA4. Mr. Whipple, a lumber mill owner
near Flagstaff5. Carlos, a freight wagon operation
living near Phoenix