1. SUMMER INSTITUTE 2013 QUESTIONS & IMAGES NEW JERSEY’S PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY THE GEOGRAPHY OF NEW JERSEY ROWAN UNIVERSITY

2. Question: What is Physical Geography?

3. FOREST AGRICULTURE URBAN WETLANDS BARREN LAND upland (non-flooded) forest NJ: 35 % land dedicated to farming; cropland, pastures, farm structures & land owned by farms NJ: 15 % Percentages are estimates based on NJDEP data land developed or subject to development for residential, commercial or industrial uses NJ: 30 % land for which the water table is at or above the surface for much of the year NJ: 20 % land with less than 1/3 vegetative cover & with no known plans for use NJ: <1% Question: What kind of land is found in New Jersey? How do we use the land?

4. View of Wharton State Forest from Apple Pie Hill fire tower; Atlantic City in the distance Question: How has New Jersey kept its forests?

5. Question: Why are wetlands important?

6. Question: Why the Garden State? Elizabeth White first successfully domesticated the blueberry at Whitesbog Village in Pemberton Twp New Jersey still has 800,000 acres of farmland

7. Question: What factors have contributed to making New Jersey the most densely populated state? Animated map of land use change since 1972

8. Question: How do New Jersey’s Geologic Provinces tell the story of the state, past & present?

9. Question: What factors shaped New Jersey’s landscape? The Palisades Cliffs or Sill along the western bank of the Hudson River, visible from New York City, is a striking remnant of the rupture formed when current-day Africa split from North America.

10. Question: What factors shaped New Jersey’s landscape? A massive offshore canyon cut by the Hudson River runs for over 100 miles off New Jersey’s coast across the Continental Shelf, a remnant from the last ice age when the Shelf was above water.

11. Question: What factors shaped New Jersey’s landscape? Precariously perched glacial erratic called Tripod Rock in Pyramid Mountain Natural Historic Area, Boonton, New Jersey

12. Question: What factors shaped New Jersey’s landscape? The rise and fall of sea level is very much a part of New Jersey’s past – and future.

13. Question: How has New Jersey’s climate changed through time? Washington crossing the Delaware – one of America’s (and New Jersey’s) most critical events. But what does this image tell us about the state’s recent climatic history?

14. Question: How are our actions shaping our future climate? For 600,000 years atmospheric carbon dioxide, temperatures, and sea levels have shown an undeniable correlation.

15. Question: Why do we experience the weather that we do? Key #2: Prevailing Winds Key #1: Latitude

16. Question: Why do we experience the weather that we do? Key #3: Topography Key #4: Large Bodies of Water

17. Question: Why do we experience the weather that we do? Key #6: Frontal Boundaries Key #5: Convection

18. Question: Why can the shore be considered the most dynamic yet stressed environment on the planet?

19. Question: In what ways do the beaches we enjoy change from day to day & year to year? Fishermen amid nor’easter waves at Manasquan Inlet, September 2009

20. Question: How do the streams (and the source of drinking water) in South Jersey differ from those in North Jersey? Canoeists make their way down the Mullica River in the NJ Pinelands

21. Question: Why is the idea of a watershed so important? The Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore asks “what is a watershed ?” NJ Watershed Map

22. Question: How did New Jersey’s natural resources spark the Industrial Revolution in America?

23. Question: How have New Jersey craftsmen turned what is in the ground into valuable goods for two centuries?

24. Question: How do New Jersey’s natural resources continue to be a source of income and entertainment today?

25. Question: What makes the Pine Barrens a “New Jersey Treasure“?

26. Question: What makes the Shore a “New Jersey Treasure“?

27. Question: What makes the Highlands a “New Jersey Treasure“?

28. Question: What is absolute location and why is it one of the foundations of geography? Red Bank is located at approximately 40 o 35’N and 74 o 7’W

29. Question: In what way is a map the most economical form of communication?

30. Fun Fact: First Dinosaur Skeleton Unearthed in New Jersey ! Recreation of Hadrosaurus found in Haddonfield in 1858