Unit 1 Lesson 3

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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 Jerseys 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 Earths
  surface as rain, sleet, hail, or snow.
• Noreasters- 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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Vocabularypg 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 Earths 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