The Rocky Mountain Region The Location of the

+ The Rocky Mountain Region The Location of the Rocky Mountain Region

+ Today’s ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS Are… What are Geographic Regions? What is the location of the Rocky Mountain Region?

+ What are Geographic Regions? Geography is the study of land. In geography, regions areas broadly divided by physical characteristics. …the Grassland Region

+ What are Geographic Regions? For example, the Rocky Mountain Region… looks very different from… the Grassland Region!

+ What are Geographic Regions? Regions will have… Differences in WHEATHER! (Some places will be rainy, some places will be sunny!) Differences in VEGETATION (Some places will have lots of different types of grasses and others will have lots of different types of trees!) Differences in ANIMAL LIFE (Some places will attract gophers and others will attract moose!) Differences in LAND FORMS (Some places will have Mountains and hills and others will be very flat!)

+ What are Geographic Regions? Please take out your SS Journals… and record your name and date… and answer today’s first ESSENTIAL QUESTION with a complete sentence or two… What are Geographic Regions? You have 3 minutes and 3 students will be asked to share!

+ What is the Location of the RMR? Let’s start by defining the 4 CARDINAL DIRECTIONS! The four main ones are NORTH, EAST, SOUTH & WEST The four minor ones are NORTH EAST, SOUTH WEST, NOTH WEST.

+ What is the Location of the RMR? North does not mean “UP” it means “closer to the North Pole. ” South does not mean “DOWN” it means “closer to the South Pole. ”

+ What is the Location of the RMR? So…what is the location of the RMR? The RMR is located in the SOUTHWESTERN PART OF ALBERTA.

+ What is the Location of the RMR? Please take out your SS Journals… and record your name and date… and answer today’s second ESSENTIAL QUESTION with a complete sentence or two… What is the location of the Rocky Mountain Region? You have 2 minutes and 3 students will be asked to share!

+ Thanks for listening!