Your child should have brought a study guide home today. They will need to locate the regions on a Michigan map, as well as, know the following:
Michigan Regions
- Upper Peninsula: forests, copper range, mountains, waterfalls, wild life
- Lower Peninsula: factories, farmland, more roads, more cities, more people, traffic, longest rivers
- Superior Upland: mountains–rocky land
- Central Low Land: flat land with a few hills
- Upper Peninsula: short growing season, lots of natural resources
- Northern Lower Peninsula:Â sandy soil, lots of tourists
- Southern Lower Peninsula: flat land for farms
Smaller Regions within Michigan
- Thumb: looks like the shape of a thumb
- Fruit Belt: a lot of fruit is grown on the west side of Michigan
- Straits of Mackinac: Where Lake Michigan and Lake Huron come together
- Metropolitan Detroit: Largest population in Michigan and the most jobs
Michigan is Part of a Larger Region
- Midwest: Lots of flat farmland (Heart land, Bread Basket)
- Great Lakes Region: All the states in this region touch at least one Great Lake.