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• Vegetation: Forests
• Vegetation: Orchards
• Interpreting a Chart: State Symbols
• Climate: Four Seasons
• Climate: Temperature and Precipitation ( Lake Effect)
• Vegetation: Forests
• Vegetation: Orchards
• Interpreting a Chart: State Symbols
• Climate: Four Seasons
• Climate: Temperature and Precipitation ( Lake Effect)
Unit One: Lesson Four
To study a place geographers ask the question: What is the place like?
To answer that question geographers study the natural (physical) characteristics of the place.
Natural characteristics include landforms, bodies of water, vegetation and climate.
Special purpose maps can be used to learn about these natural (physical) characteristics.
Forests and orchards are important types of vegetation in Michigan.
Michigan’s climate has four seasons and is influenced by the Great Lakes.
different kinds of land on the Earth
Example: Mountains, hills and islands are
different landforms.
the plants of an area Example: The vegetation of Michigan
includes apple trees, white pines and many different wildflowers
Michigan has many important types of plants, or vegetation.
Vegetation is another type of natural (physical) characteristic.
Special purpose maps can be used to study vegetation as well as landforms and bodies of water.
◦ National forests are managed by our nation’s government. They are recognized as being important to our whole country.
◦ State forests are managed by our state government. Michigan has the largest state forest system of any state except Alaska.
◦ If you were to overlay the maps of the national forests and the state forests you would see that much of the Upper Peninsula is forest.
Source: Michigan Forests Maps. 30 June 2009 <http://mff.dsisd.net/Recreation/Ownership.htm>.
Commercial Forests refer to forests that are used to harvest and sell trees for paper, lumber and other tree products.
What do you notice about the location of the commercial forests?
They are all located in the Upper Peninsula.
Later this year we will learn about Michigan history and about the growth and development of lumbering in Michigan.
How the location of orchards in Michigan differs from the location of forests?
What might we conclude about the location of orchards and the Great Lakes?
Orchards are often found along the shores of the Great Lakes.