4. Location Resources - Oil, Natural Gas, Silver, and Copper Relative Location to Compass - South of Colorado and Kansas - Southeast of Kentucky - North of Mexico and bordering Mexico Longitude and Latitude of Phoenix, Arizona - 33 degrees North - 112 degrees West
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6. Movement Why have people started to live in this region? - People have chosen to live in this region because they found land and then kept walking for a while and then stopped and then started to live. How are things transported? - Things are transported by rivers and highways but mostly airplanes because the mountains.
7. Movement Customs from this region - The Hohokam who dug complex irrigation systems in central Arizona. - The Anasazi, who erected cliff houses in northern Arizona and New Mexico, Utah and Colorado. What Might happen if one of the transportation routes got interrupted? - If one or more of the transportation routes were interrupted, the people might not get mail because it is hard for a mailman to drive all the way through the mountains.
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9. Regions Unique characteristic of the Region - Arizona, Oklahoma, and parts of New Mexico were part of Mexico before the Mexican- American war. What economic impact does the region have on the U.S. economy? - The Southwest’s Economy has an impact on the US economy because the Southwest Region gets money from all of the national parks they have and then they give some to the US and they might make goods with some of that money.
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11. Place Climate - Most of the Southwest has a dry, arid, desert climate What effect does climate have on settlement patterns in the region? - The climate affected the settlement patterns for the Southwest region because if some people did like the hot weather they wouldn’t want to live there. They would keep walking until they found weather that they like.
12. Human Environmental-Interactions Economic Issues - The tornadoes can ruin the crops and then people won’t be able to get money for the crops. People could then starve. What effect does climate have on settlement patterns in the region? - The climate can affect the settlement of the Southwest because if it is too hot for some people, those people won’t live there.
13. Human Environmental-Interactions How has pollution affected the lives of the people in the region? - Pollution could affect people’s lives because global warming could take effect in 20-30 years. Then it could get so hot in some places that people might not be able to live there all year.
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