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KeyKey

n Red-Term to define and remembern Yellow-Place to locate and remembern

Green-Resource to know andremembern Bright Green-Agricultural product

(crop) to remembern White , Blue and Brown - Narration to

help understanding


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BeachBeach

n Have you been on a beach in theAtlantic Coastal Plain?

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Where?nn What did you see?n

n Close your eyes!


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North Padre Island Padre Island ,Texas


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From Philip Keroff


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GalvestonGalveston Island, TexasBarrier Island

DuneOcean

( Gulf of MexicoGulf of Mexico ) Beach


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Galveston Island


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Human-Environment InteractionHuman-Environment Interactionn Why are houses

built on stilts(piers)?

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n Answer: Storm Surge

Hurricane


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Bolivar Peninsula, east of Galveston, afterHurricane Ike in 2008. New York Times photograph


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Galveston Island

Opposite side of island from beach

Sound , (Lagoon) Galveston Bay

Swamp


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SoundSound (Galveston Bay)(Galveston Bay)

Swamp

Sound

Mainland (swamp, too)

Intercoastal Waterway


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DefinitionsDefinitionsn Resource -something of use to peoplen Barrier Island -a sandy, long, narrow land

bordered by ocean and soundn Beach -land (usually sand) formed bywater actionn Dune -low sandy ridge parallel to the beach

on a barrier island; formed by windn Sound -shallow, protected salt water

located between a barrier island and themainland

n


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Definitions, continuedDefinitions, continued

n Swamp -half water, half land foundon the sound of a barrier island andthe mainland in the Atlantic CoastalPlain

n Hurricane -a tropical low pressuresystem with high winds (74+mph);[called typhoon in the Pacific Oceanand cyclone in the Indian Ocean]


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Houston ShipHouston Ship CanalCanal

HoustonHouston

What is in the tanks?

Petroleum ProductsPetroleum = Resource


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Petroleum and natural gas are also found offshoreon the continental shelf .


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Natural GasNatural Gas storage tanksstorage tanks

Near Corpus Christi

From Philip Keroff


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HoustonHouston , Texas, Texas Central Business District (CBD)Central Business District (CBD)

CBD = Business Headquarters and Tall Buildings


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What is it?

Sports Arena


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n What is it? Revolving

Restaurantn

What would ageographer use itfor?

Observing spatialpatterns(looking down)


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San AntonioSan Antonio CBDCBD


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Secondary urban center

San Antonio ,Texas


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O l d ( M e x i c a n ) M a r k e t

O l d ( M e x i c a n ) M a r k e t

Sequent OccupanceSequent Occupance


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Sequent Occupance


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Whats Happening?Whats Happening?


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Urban RenewalUrban Renewal

What will replace these residences?

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Sequent Occupance LocallySequent Occupance Locally


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Sequent Occupance

What is it?


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Spanish Land Division


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Spanish System of Land DivisionSpanish System of Land Division

n Huge areas (Haciendas) Land Grantsn Given by king to nobles as a reward

for servicesn Straight line boundariesn Relatively dry regionn Needed some access to watern Found in former Spanish Colony:

Texas, New Mexico, Arizona,California


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n Display for Diade losMuertos (Day

of the Dead)n November 2


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Alamo Dome

Texas has culture???


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Yes, they did.

Hispanic style ( adobe )


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American style ( dog trot )


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St Louis Saint Louis IX (1214-


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New Orleans, La.New Orleans, La.

Jackson Square

Andrew Jackson

St. LouisCathedral

Saint Louis IX (12141270, King from 1226)was the patron saint of France, so the Frenchnamed many places

after him.

The city was founded in 1718, 100 miles from the


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mouth of the Mississippi River .


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This wasthe first

placeupstreamfrom the

mouth thatwas

relativelyhigh

ground.

Today that high


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y gground is called

Vieux Carre or theFrench Quarter .


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Why does St. LouisCemetery Number 1

use crypts

(mausoleums)?


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Notice theFrench, or

Cajun ,names.


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Notice the Fleur


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Notice the Fleur de lis on theblue flag

symbols of France.

And nearby is the CBD


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And nearby is the CBD .


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The river is the reason for New Orleans


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New Orleans was established as port wherecargo was unloaded from deep draft ocean-going ships like this to . . .


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shallow-draft river barges.

Although this one is carrying coal, mostof the U.S.s grain is exported fromhere.


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Chalmette Oil Refinery

Industry is located in thevicinity of the port .


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Near the CBD is the GardenDistrict

An area of expensive older (1850-1920) homes


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All three of these areas are located onAll three of these areas are located on


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All three of these areas are located onAll three of these areas are located onrelatively high ground--the naturalrelatively high ground--the naturalleveeslevees of theof the Mississippi RiverMississippi River ..


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During a flood or hurricane thesehigher areas are relatively safe fromflooding, but the rest of the city andmany of the suburbs are at or belowsea level. When hurricane Katrinahit in 2005, the low-lying areas were

heavily damaged.


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The buildings below the level of the river are


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The buildings below the level of the river areprotected by the levee .

le v e e

Mississippi River

This levee held during Katrina.


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This one did also.


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These pumps are used to raise therain water up to the canal.


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Most of the houses in the low lying areasstill show damage almost three years after

Katrina.


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Many have beenrepaired.

Notice the piers on the lowerlevel, to help protect it from the


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, p pnext levee breach.


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Both are empty.


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In the Lower 9 th Ward


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The church was rehabbed.


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This school was not.


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[Out of the lower 9 th ward now.]


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Saint Bernards ParishFishing boats along a canal


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Fishing boats along a canal.


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higher


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g

highest


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The total death toll is 1836.


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137

Katrinas strongest winds andhighest storm surge did not hit


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highest storm surge did not hitNew Orleans. It hit here

Waveland, Mississippi.


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CITY HALL COMPLEX

Schools: old and new


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The larger coastal towns of Gulfport and Biloxi , Mississippisustained huge damage, as well.


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The new building is built of brick and with its narrower


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faade toward the Gulf of Mexico.

VicksburgVicksburg MississippiMississippi


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VicksburgVicksburg , Mississippi, Mississippi

tow

Flood PlainFlood Plain


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M e a n d e r M e a n d e r

BluffBluff Flood Plain


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Oxbow LakeHorseshoe Lake

American BottomsGranite City, Illinois

Gr a ni t e Ci t y

C a n a l

Alluvial Soil Alluvial Soil

BluffBluff


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Bluff Bluff

VicksburgVicksburg Mississippi, Mississippi


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Whats with the cannon on the bluff?

VicksburgVicksburg , Mississippi, Mississippi


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The winners of wars are usually

Whose monument?


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wars are usually the ones to put

up monuments.

Vicksburg National Battlefield


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The Mississippi at Vicksburg is over twiceas wide, twice as deep and four times thevolume of the river in Saint Louis.

DefinitionsDefinitionsn Adobe --sun-dried mixture of mud and straw


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used in American Southwestn

Dog-trot house log cabin from 19th

century USwith an open walkway between two roomsn Parish -a county in Louisianan Tow- a series of barges pushed by a towboatn Flood Plain --Flat land next to a river that

naturally is regularly inundatedn Bluff --High land at the edge of a flood plainn

Meander snake-like bend in a slow rivern Oxbow Lake a cut off meandern Alluvial Soil silt on a flood plain by a rivern Loess --Wind blown soil; fine particles; usually

ellowish

Parts of the coastal plain isswamplandhere tupelo and


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swampland here tupelo andcypress trees grow in a small

pocket of swamp in centralMississippi.

Spanish Moss


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n Another area of good alluvial soil iscalled the Delta . Its not thepresent Mississippi River Delta

which stretches into the Gulf of Mexico, but an old delta located inthe northwestern part of the state

of Mississippi.

AgricultureAgriculture


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What is the crop?

Rice

AgricultureAgriculture


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What is the crop?

Cotton


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Drainage CanalDrainage Canal


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The Bootheel Bootheel , Missouri

In a Flood Plain


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Hayti, Missouri

Missouri


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Mississippi River

At New Madrid, Missouri


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Why areWhy are

they round?they round?


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la n d


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Atlantic Ocean

B a r r i e

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D u n e

Sound

landfill

Miami BeachMiami Beach


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Miami BeachMiami Beach


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Fort LauderdaleFort Lauderdale


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Wheres the beach?

B a r r i e r I s l a n d

I n t e r c o a s t a l W a t e r w a y


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Miami CBDMiami CBD


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Miami CBDMiami CBD


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Little HavanaLittle HavanaA Miami NeighborhoodA Miami Neighborhood


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A Miami NeighborhoodA Miami Neighborhood

Which ethnic group lives here?

Why did the Cubans emigrate?


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Little HavanaLittle HavanaA Miami NeighborhoodA Miami Neighborhood

Why did many Cubans settle in Miami?

Cape CanaveralCape Canaveral


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Saturn BSaturn B


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Assembly BuildingAssembly Building

Launching PlatformsLaunching Platforms


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Barrier Island--SwampBarrier Island--Swamp

Sound Sound

Cape Canaveral NationalCape Canaveral NationalSeashoreSeashore


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Seashore

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?


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Animals I Have SeenAnimals I Have Seen


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PortuguesePortugueseMan o War Man o War

Disney World,Disney World, OrlandoOrlando , Florida, Florida


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Epcot

Why Ive Seen Enough of Why Ive Seen Enough of Theme ParksTheme Parks


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What culture is it?

Japanese


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Japanese

Chinese


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Arab--Morocco

Map PlacementMap Placement


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Atlantic Coastal PlainAtlantic Coastal Plain Texas Louisiana Mississippi andTexas Louisiana Mississippi and


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Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, andTexas, Louisiana, Mississippi, andFloridaFlorida

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