2. What Does Arizona look like?
We’re more than just desert, you know…

3. 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”

4. 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.

5. What do the homes say about the zones?
Great Plains
Pacific Northwest

6. Australian home by the sea
English Home by the sea
Australian home by the sea

7. Any Smartboard volunteers?
Arizona zones
Any Smartboard volunteers?
Desert
Mountain
Plateau

8. 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)

10. 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?

12. Life in the Desert

13. 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

14. 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

16. Life in the Mountains

17. 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.

18. 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

20. Life 0n the Plateau

21. 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

22. 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

23. Create a Narrative
Look 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.
Bob, a cattle rancher living near Tucson
Sika, a Yavapai living near Prescott
Victoria, a tourist going from New York to CA
Mr. Whipple, a lumber mill owner near Flagstaff
Carlos, a freight wagon operation living near Phoenix