Here is the Michigan Regions Study Guide just in case your child forgot it at school. These are things that they have been reviewing in class. The quiz will be tomorrow during class.
Michigan Regions
- Upper Peninsula: Mountains, Forests
- Lower Peninsula: Flat farmland
- Northern Lower Peninsula: Hills
- Southern Lower Peninsula: Farming
Smaller Regions Within Michigan
- Thumb: It’s shaped like a thumb
- Fruit Belt: They grow a lot of kinds of fruit (West side of Michigan)
- Straits of Mackinac: Where Lake Michigan & Lake Huron meet
- Metropolitan Detroit: They have a lot of manufacturing companies & most of the people in Michigan live there.
Michigan is Part of a Larger Region
- Midwest: Mostly flat farmland
- Great Lakes Region: All of the states touch at least one Great Lake.
