Transcript How does location affect climate?

Unit 1 Lesson 3
New Jersey Climates and
Resources
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Vocabulary pg 27
• Climate- kind of weather a place has
over a long period of time.
– New Jersey’s Climate
• Summer – Hot and Humid
• Winter- Cold and precipitation
• Spring- Climate slowly becomes warm
• Fall- Cool and Dry
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Vocabulary pg 27
• Precipitation- water that falls to
Earth’s surface as rain, sleet, hail, or
snow.
• Nor’easters- strong storms that bring
high winds, heavy snows, and
freezing cold.
– Occur in Winter
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How does location affect climate?
• Northwestern Region – coldest
area in state
–High elevations have cooler
summers and colder winters.
• Summer temperatures – 75 degrees
• Winter temperatures – 26 degrees
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How does location affect climate?
• Southern Region- milder climate
–Ocean brings cool breezes in the
summer and warm air in the winter.
–Warmest area in the state
–Cape May• Winter temperatures do not go below
34 degrees
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Vocabulary
pg 28
• Natural Resources- something found
in nature that people can use.
–Can be living or non living
• Living – Animals and plants
• Non Living – Minerals and sand
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Vocabulary
• Renewable- resources can be reused
or replaced
–Examples – trees
• Nonrenewable- Cannot be made
again
–formed by nature over thousands of
years ago.
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“Garden State”
• Plentiful harvests of fruits and
vegetables
– Early settlers settled in the:
• Atlantic Coastal Plan and Piedmont
Regions
• Came to fish
• Built communities near Delaware and
Hudson River along Atlantic Coast
• Worked in mines
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Using the Land
• Farming
– New Jersey Farms supplied NYC and
Philadelphia with fresh fruits and
vegetables.
• Including:
–Eggplant
–Corn
–Tomatoes
–Lettuce
–Apples
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Farming
• New Jersey has more than 9,000
farms
–9 to 50 acres big
–Southwestern Region
• 40,000 acres of vegetable farms
–Southeastern Region
• Cranberries and Blueberries
–Wet, sandy soil
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Cranberry Bogs
Blueberry field
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Farms
• Raise cows for
–milk, butter, and other dairy products
• Livestock Farms
–cows, pigs, and chickens
• Monmouth County
–Horse farms
• racing and riding
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New Jersey Dairy Farms
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Other Resources
• Fishing
–Take tourists on trips
–Fish
–Saltwater
• flounder, tuna, whiting, crabs
–Freshwater
• trout, bass, catfish
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Upper Deerfield Township
Sunset Lake
Swedesboro
Lake Narraticon.
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Mining
• Mined Minerals
– Some found underground and on
Earth’s surface
– Underground mines are now closed
– All mining done on surface
– Rock is mined and crushed to make
• roads, bridges, and buildings
– In hills and mountains mined for
• iron, copper, zinc, and other hard
minerals
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Sterling Hill Mine Tunnel
An old mining tunnel at the Sterling Hill Mining Museum
in New Jersey. This was a zinc mine that operated up into the 1980's.
It was the last underground mine in New Jersey.
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Manufacturing
• Manufacturing- Making goods from
natural resources
– Ex. making glass from sand
– NJ leading manufacturer of
• plastics, rubber, and machinery
• chemicals, medicines, and printed
materials
» Printed materials - books and magazines
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Welsbach Factory
Gloucester, NJ
Gas Mantle Factory
RCA Factory
“Nipper Building”
American Electronics
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