1. Utah Studies The Geography of Utah
Students will understand the basics of Utah’s Geography

2. What is Geography? How does Utah’s geography affect its people?
The study of the Earth’s physical features and how people and places affect each other.
How does Utah’s geography affect its people?

3. Where is Utah located? Which of these is true?
Utah is on planet Earth
Utah is in the Northwest Hemisphere.
Utah is in the western part of the United States

4. What are the physical features of Utah?
These are Natural to the environment.
Mountains
Wasatch and Uintah Mountains
Tallest mountain in Utah?
Kings Peak
What do people do there?

5. What are the physical features of Utah?
Rivers
Colorado
Green River
730 Miles long

6. What are the physical features of Utah?
Lakes
Great Salt Lake
Largest saltwater lake in the western hemisphere
Bear Lake
Lake Powell
Utah Lake

7. How do physical features of our state affect the people?
People start communities where physical features provide protection against enemies and weather.
What do people need to live?
How do physical features make life more enjoyable?

8. What are the land regions in Utah?
There are 3.
Rocky Mountain Region
Great Basin Region
Wide bowl shaped area of Earth surface
Colorado Plateau Region
A high, wide, flat landform
a natural feature of the
Earths surface
Region is an area of land that has things in common.
Which is the largest?
Where do you live?

9. What do each of the land regions provide?
Snow
Recreation
Minerals

10. Physical features of Great Basin
Large and Arid
being without moisture; extremely dry
Most of the large cities in Utah are on the edge
Salt Lake City
Water flows from the mountains to our lakes.
These are called tributaries

11. Physical Features of the Colorado Plateau
What is a plateau?
Elevated large flat area of land
Colorado plateau receives very little rain
Rivers flow from here to the Colorado river then to the Pacific Ocean. These are called tributaries.
Water that flows into a larger river or lake
Colorful rock formations
Zion’s, Bryce Canyon are all in this area.
Sedimentary rock: rock formed by the deposit of minerals or organic matter
Mining for natural resources
Water, forests minerals, stone, soil that occur in nature and have economic value.

12. How do people use land? National government owns 60% of the land.
Why?
State of Utah also owns a lot of land.
Government Land is called public land
State and National parks are public land.
Why does the government own land? They stop private owners from abusing it.

13. Who Controls the public land?
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Congress
They set aside wilderness areas to preserve the beauty of our state.
Trust Lands
Money for schools
In the news?

14. What is Utah’s Climate like?
What does climate mean?
Climate is the weather pattern of place over a period of many years.
What things affect the climate?
Distance from the equator
Elevation
Distance from the ocean
More extreme temperatures and weather

15. Why does it matter? Farmers use melted snow, water, to irrigate crops
Irrigation the artificial watering of land to help in the production of crops
Need it to feed domestic animals
Tamed and raised by humans
Water keeps us alive
Fishing

16. What plants and animals live in Utah?
There are a lot and it depends where you live.
What wildlife have you seen in Utah?
What does indigenous mean?
Native or natural to the state