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Missouri Geography
Missouri Unit
Location
• Relative and Absolute Location
• Relative - General description of a location.
• Absolute - Exact Location using latitude and
longitude
• Latitude lines measuring North and South
from the Equator.
• Longitude lines measuring East and West from
the Prime Meridian.
5 Themes of Geography
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Location
Place
Human and Environment Interaction
Movement
Regions
Location
• Description of a place using Absolute or
Relative Location.
• Example your house
• The School
• Describe the location for Relative.
• Give Lat and Long to describe Absolute.
Place
• Describe somewhere using Physical or human
characteristics.
• Physical - naturally occurring ex. Mountains
• Human - man made ex. Roads and bridges.
Human and Environment Interaction
• Interaction between humans and their
environment.
• Question?
• Do we adapt to our environment or do we
adapt our environment to us?
• Anyone cold?
Movement
• Movement of goods, services, ideas, and
people throughout the world
• Examples…
• Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.
• New Movements?
Region
• Areas with similar characteristics.
• Not restricted by their proximity to each other.
• Deserts, Tundra, Plains, etc...
Regions of Missouri
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Glaciated Plains
Osage Plains
Mississippi Alluvial Plains
Ozark Plateau
Glaciated Plains
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Northern part of Missouri.
Once covered in glaciers during the Ice Age.
Melted and left very fertile soil.
Farming and Agriculture.
Osage Plains
• Eastern extension of the Great Plains
• Soil is dryer and rockier.
• Some agriculture, but not nearly as fertile as
the Glaciated Plains.
Mississippi Alluvial Plains
• Bootheel used to be covered in swamps and
wetlands.
• The state and farmers have built levees and
canals that allow the water flow to be
controlled.
• This allows farming of the rich soil.
• Tobacco, rice, and cotton
Ozark Plateau
• Old worn down mountains.
• Along with the Appalachian Mountains they
are the oldest in the country.
• Most of the central and south west portion of
the state.
• Mt. Taum Sauk in St. Francois County 1772 Ft.
Geology
• Most of MO is made up of Igneous Rock - or
liquid that cooled and was compressed until it
formed rock.
• Granite and Rhylite
• Much of the rock runs 4000 ft. under the
surface.
• Rivers both above and under ground have
eroded this rock.
Caves
• Missouri has over 3000 caves.
• Stalactites - Long icicle like formations forming
from the top of a cave.
• Stalagmites Long icicle like formations from
the bottom of a cave.
• Both caused by water dripping and combining
with minerals.
Plotting Latitude and Longitude
• All Latitude and Longitude are measured in
Degrees - Minutes - Seconds
• 60 Seconds = 1 Minute
• 60 Minutes = 1 Degree
• Max of 180 Degrees E,W,N, &S
Convert
• 90º 71’ 80” W
• 91º 12’ 20” W
• 120 º 119’ 61”
• 122 º 1”
Plot
• 39 degrees North 76 degrees West.
• Washington DC
• 33 degrees North, 117 Degrees West
• San Diego
New Madrid Earthquake
• December 1811
• The New Madrid Fault awakened and began a
series of earthquakes and tremors that lasted
3 Months
• Felt in Boston, MA and Toronto, Ontario, CN.
Earthquake
• Plates rub along each other creating ground
movements.
• The Mississippi River ran BACKWARDS for a
time after the earthquake.
• The water level raised 12 ft in minutes.
• Huge waves destroyed whole town like
Caruthersville, MO
• No Deaths!
Climate
• Average weather over a measured period of
time.
• Continental Humid - The weather is variable
based on the seasons.
• Transitions
• Winter - Cold/Wet = Snowfall
• Winter - Cold/Dry
• Summer - Hot/Dry
• Summer - Hot/Wet
Borders
• MO covers 70,000 sq. miles.
• Both natural and manmade borders.
• Major natural borders
– MO River
– MS River
– St. Francois River
Borders
• Manmade
– 40°30” N
– 36° N
– 36° 30” N Bootheel
Waterways
• Aquifer - Underground H20 system filters
through rock and soil used for manmade wells
• Pollution - Runoff from fertilizers can pollute
the aquifers
• Rivers - 11,000 miles of streams and rivers
• Borders
• What else can rivers be used for.
Water...
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Lakes
MO does not have any natural large lakes.
Created by damming rivers.
Taneycomo
Bull Shoals
Smithville
L of O
Table Rock
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