Kuby Lab Chapter 2 Lab 1

1.1 Turn on each layer one at a time and look closely at each map. Write the name of each layer and the map title in the spaces that follow

Names=bold Titles= regular Names Titles
1. Chiles Chiles Peppers
2. Coyotes Coyotes
3. Geographers Southwest Division of the Association of American Geographers
4. Geometric Southwest Quadrant of the United States
5. Grazing Grazing on Public Lands
6. Hispanic High Hispanic Percentage
7. MexAmerica “MexAmerica”, one of The Nine Nations of North America
8. Missions Spanish Missions
9. National Parks Ten or more National Parks, National Monuments, or National Historic Sites
10. Native Americans Native American in the Southwestern United States
11. NCAA National Collegiate Athletic Association Southwest Conference
12. Norteño Historically Isolated Frontier Region
13. Park Services National Park Service District
14. Saguaro Saguaro Cacti
15. Sunshine Abundant Sunshine
16. Three Peoples Fusion of Native American, European, and Hispanic Cultures
17. Vernacular Vernacular Southwest
18. Watersheds Colorado River and Rio Grande Watersheds

1.2 Think about what the region means to you and consider whether each map corresponds to your image of the region. In your opinion, which three maps best define the Middle East or American Southwest?

1. MexAmerican 2. Coyotes 3. Geometric Map

1.3 Justify the inclusion of each of your three layers. Why, in other words, do you believe each of these three variables represents the way of life of the region?

The MexAmericans represent the American southwest in a way that over the years the Mexicans that have become American have settled mostly in this one place. Coyotes represent the American southwest because when illegal aliens are smuggled over the border they end up in the southwest and most of the time do not leave that place. The Geometric maps