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UNIT 2: A SENSE OF PLACE
CHAPTER 1: MISSISSIPPI’S NATURAL ENVIRONMENT: CLIMATE AND WATER RESOURCES
THE 5 THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY
1. ____________________________________
 Every geographical feature or place has a specific location
 The state of Mississippi has a specific location
2. ____________________________________
 Every place has physical and cultural characteristics
 ___________________________________________: Climate, water resources, landforms, soils, energy, mineral
resources, vegetation, animal life
 ___________________________________________: Languages, religions, technology, and the political system of the
inhabitants
3. ____________________________________
 Describes how _____________________ use and ________________________ with the environment (Example: farming,
forestry, and mining)
 People ________________ to their environment by their choices in clothing, housing, and land use
 Some human activities ____________________ resources and pollute the air
4. ____________________________________
 Concerns human interaction with the ways we are __________________with regions, cultures, and people
beyond our immediate environment
 It may be the result of _______________, trade, communication, or immigration
 Everyday people, goods, and information are ___________________ across Mississippi
5. ____________________________________
 Geographers divide the world into regions
 Defined by specific criteria such as landforms, ethnic composition, language, or a combination of several
other factors
 Mississippi can be divided into ______ broad geographic regions (see p. 5)
1. _________________________
2. _________________________
3. _________________________
4. _________________________
MISSISSIPPI’S GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS
1.The Delta
 Located in ______________________ Mississippi
 Many moved to this location after the American Civil War
2.The Hills
 Located in ______________________ Mississippi
3.The Piney Woods
 Located in ______________________ Mississippi
4.The Gulf Coast
 Located on a narrow strip of land bordering the ______________________________
 Home to the ________________________________________________ in Hancock county where they study oceans, the
earth’s environment, and rocket engines
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MEASURES OF LOCATION
1. ______________________ Location
 Describes where a place is ________________________ to other places
o Mississippi’s borders
 North—_________________________________
 South—_________________________________
 East—___________________________________
 West—__________________________________
o Mississippi’s Size
 ____________ miles long North to South
 ____________ miles wide East to West
 ____________ square miles
 The __________ largest state
o Population according to 2000 U.S. Census: ____________ million
2. ______________________ Location
 Directs one to a ______________________ position on the earth’s surface
 Your street address is the absolute location of your home
Measurements:
 _________________________—The distance North or South of the Equator
 _________________________—The distance East or West of the Prime Meridian
 Mississippi’s absolute location is between _________ and ___________ North Latitude and between __________
and ___________ Longitude (see p. 7)
ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY
 Has led to significant advances in determining the absolute location of a place
 GPS-_____________________________________________—uses a satellite to help determine the precise location of a
place
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
 Includes such elements as climate, water, landforms, energy, mineral resources, vegetation, and wildlife
 These elements are divided into 4 spheres
1. ________________________
2. ________________________
3. ________________________
4. ________________________
1. Atmosphere
 The blanket of ____________ that surrounds the earth’s surface—this is mainly responsible for our weather
system
2. Lithosphere
 Outermost shell of the solid _________________—gives the earth its landforms, physical landscape, energy,
and mineral resources
3. Hydrosphere
 Contains all the ____________________ that exists on and within the solid surface of the earth
4. Biosphere
 All the regions that support the earth’s _________________________ including vegetation, animals, and people
(Example: a rainforest)
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CLIMATE
 The long-term average of ____________________ conditions—it is usually discussed in terms of
___________________________ and ______________________________
 Mississippi’s climate is _________________________________________ because it is humid most of the year and
receives ample amounts of rainfall
o Summers are warm to hot and winters are cool
o Receives more than ___________ inches of rainfall annually
o Has more than _______________ frost free days each year
 Humidity is the ratio of ______________________________ in the air
 Effects recreation, manufacturing, and agriculture within a region
 Weather refers to day-to-day conditions and changes in the atmosphere for temperature, rainfall, wind,
cloudiness, humidity, and air pressure
 Temperature. Average annual temperature of Mississippi is ______________
o Only Texas, Louisiana, and Florida have higher averages
o Lowest temperature ever recorded was ___________ in Corinth in 1966
o Highest temperature ever recorded was ___________ in Holly Springs in 1930
o Summertime average is ______________
o _______________________ is the coldest month with an average of 43°-48° F
o ___________________________. Mississippi has rain, snow, sleet, and hail. Annual is 52 inches
NATURAL HAZARDS
 Mississippi has a variety of natural hazards including thunderstorms, tornadoes, hail storms, hurricanes,
gales/high winds, short droughts, lightening, floods, and the potential for earth quakes
 Lightening killed or injured _____________ between 1959-1994
 The ________________________________ is partly under Northwest Mississippi
TORNADOES
 Funnel shaped storms that develop when warm moist air meets colder air
 Winds move counter-clockwise
 It can destroy everything in seconds
 Usually only ______________________ ft. wide
 Mississippi averages _________ and __________ resultant deaths per year over the last 50 years
 Measured on the ___________________________ F0 is less than 73 mph-F5 is 261-368 mph
 ________________________________ County has the greatest amount of Tornadoes
HURRICANES
Storms that arise in the Atlantic Ocean and cover hundreds of miles
Winds blow counter-clockwise around a calm eye
Measured on the ____________________________________ Category 1 is 74-95 mph-Category 5 is over 155 mph
Hurricane _________________________ is the most powerful hurricane to ever hit Mississippi
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WATER RESOURCES
 ______________________________________ is where water is exchanged between the earth and the atmosphere
1. Water _______________________ from oceans, rivers, lakes, and reservoirs
2. It is carried upward into the atmosphere as water ____________________
3. This water vapor ____________________________ and returns to earth in some form of precipitation
4. It then becomes part of the surface water or ground water
 ___________________________. This refers to water in lakes, ponds, rivers, and the ocean (NOT FOR DRINKING!)
o In Mississippi, surface water is used primarily for irrigation and electric power generation
o The main concern: storage of it
 ___________________________ is water that seeps below the earth’s surface into the spaces between cracks in
the rocks. It is stored in aquifers
 ___________________________ are rock formations where ground water accumulates. Mississippi has many of
these
 The water supply of most cities and towns comes from ground water
 ___________________________. The Mississippi River forms most of the Western border of the state. The Ohio,
Missouri, and Arkansas, Yazoo, and Big Black rivers flow into it
 The Mississippi River is the _ River in the U.S. It begins in Minnesota and flows ____________________ miles to
its mouth at the Gulf of Mexico
 Mississippi has _________ major river systems and __________ minor river systems
 ____________________________ is a geographical area draining into a river or reservoir
 Four of Mississippi river systems drain into the Mississippi River
 About half of the state’s land area drains westward into the Mississippi River
 The 5 largest river systems in Mississippi
o Yazoo, Pascagoula, Pearl, Tombigbee, and Big Black river
 Reservoirs are natural or artificial lakes used to store water
o There are six major reservoirs in Mississippi
 _________________________, _________________________, _________________________, and
_________________________, _________________________ Lake, and _________________________ Reservoir
 Arkabutla, Sardis, Enid, and Grenada Lakes were all designed primarily to assist in flood
control
 Ross Barnett is primarily a recreational facility
 ____________________________________________, Vicksburg was developed to study the rivers and develop a flood
control plan
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