WHAT DOES ARIZONA LOOK LIKE?

We’re more than just desert, you know…

ARIZONA IS A LAND OF DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHICAL ZONES

Geographical Zone: A region with a distinct

climate , landforms and plant and animal populations.

Arizona has the following Zones: Desert also known as “Basin and Range” Mountain also known as the “Transition Zone” Plateau also known as “Colorado Plateau”

WHY DO “ZONES” MATTER IN SOCIAL STUDIES?

Geographical Zones determine how you live. What you eat What your home is like What you do for a job What your culture is like

No other single factor influences the development of human cultures across the globe as much as Geographical Zones.

WHAT DO THE HOMES SAY ABOUT THE ZONES?

PACIFIC NORTHWEST GREAT PLAINS

ENGLISH HOME BY THE SEA AUSTRALIAN HOME BY THE SEA

ARIZONA ZONES

Any Smartboard volunteers?

Desert Mountain

Plateau

LIFE QUESTIONS IN THE ZONE

What would you eat? Where or how would you get water? What would your shelter look like? What kind of clothing would you have? How would you measure wealth? How much space would you need to

survive? What kind of community would you

need or want? (Family, Tribe, City)

WATER AND SETTLEMENT

Which two zones have the most water?

Create arrows to identify the water flow using a colored pencil.

Circle the reservoirs on this map using a colored pencil.

Compare the locations of cities with the location of rivers and reservoirs. WHAT DO YOU FIND?

LIFE IN THE DESERT

LIFE IN THE SONORAN DESERT

Maricopa, Pima, Papago, Tohono O’ Odham

Quickest route through Arizona. First Railroad

Scant Resources (water, wood, animals) ARID CLIMATE

Small communities, tied to water sources

Mineral Wealth brought Europeans, Spanish and Mexicans learned to raise cattle in grasslands

WHAT HAPPENED?

First area to be settled by Europeans

Spanish Ranches, then Mexican

Mexicans pushed Natives out

Freighters to California, then railroads

After Mexican-American war, American industry moved in

Americans pushed Mexicans out

LIFE IN THE MOUNTAINS

LIFE IN THE MOUNTAINS

Sinagua and Yavapai-semi mobile, stayed near fertile streambeds. Small communities.

Plentiful water

Thin, poor soil. Fine for cattle, but easily overgrazed.

Plenty of mineral wealth.

WHAT HAPPENED?

1863- GOLD! Industrialists from outside AZ came to places like Jerome and Prescott and pushed out Native American tribes.

“For the first time in Arizona’s history, non-Indians came to the mountainous interior and stayed.”

Small scale mining until the Railroad connected Prescott in 1893

Railroad made mining and cattle possible because it moved the materials out of AZ to be sold

LIFE 0N THE PLATEAU

LIFE 0N THE PLATEAU

Navajo and some Apache. More Apache, Sinagua and Yavapai moved into area in 1870’s…WHY?

Temperate climate due to higher elevation.

Terrain makes large scale farming difficult.

Full of mineral wealth.

Well suited for industrial mining and logging

WHAT HAPPENED?

Spanish or Mexicans had not settled in Northern Arizona in any real numbers

Mexican-American War brought U.S. into contact with the Navajo.

Within 20 years, Canyon de Chelly had been destroyed

Railroads connected Northern Arizona to San Francisco (Lumber, Gold, Copper, and Dollars)

Arizona became more American than Mexican

CREATE A NARRATIVELook at your landform and water maps. Create a narrative a describing how the following people’s lives would have changed with the arrival of the Railroad.1. Bob, a cattle rancher living near

Tucson2. Sika, a Yavapai living near

Prescott3. Victoria, a tourist going from New

York to CA4. Mr. Whipple, a lumber mill owner

near Flagstaff5. Carlos, a freight wagon operation

living near Phoenix