Describe two unique geographic features of Mississippi and explain how they impact the state’s social and economic development. Will give 50 points and brainliest to correct answer. Please help me

the Mississippi River is one,travels throughout many states

Explanation:

Ask people to define “geography,” and most of them will initially say it is location — where a place is. The “where” is certainly central to geography, and with tools such as maps and global positioning technology, geography is the subject best equipped to address a question about location. However, a simple exercise will illustrate that geography is much more than just location.

Imagine that the state of Mississippi was able to exchange places with the state of Alaska. Not only would its location be much farther north, but what else about the state would change as a result of the shift in latitude? How would Mississippi’s history, her people, and their cultures, have been different if the state had been situated along the Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea instead of along the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi River?

Geographers use “so what?” questions to invite investigation of such queries. These “so what?” questions give geography meaning and expand study of the subject beyond basic location and a collection of place names, coordinates, and capitals. It is when geography explores the “so what?” questions, as well as the “where?” question, that the subject comes alive and shows the excitement and wonder, as well as the difficulties and challenges, that our incredible planet can offer.

What other questions might geography answer about a place? The National Geographic Society and other professional geographers suggest focusing on the five themes of geography, or five areas that help describe a place — location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region. Let’s explore those five themes as they relate to Mississippi.

Location

Geography’s fundamental question about a place — where is it? — is answered in the theme of location. The answer to the “where” question can relay a wealth of information without which little else can be understood. Mississippi’s location can best be explained in both absolute and relative terms. The state is located between 30 degrees and 34 degrees north latitude, or the lower middle latitudes. This places the state in the temperate climate zone in the northern hemisphere. Mississippi is also located in the western hemisphere with a longitude ranging from 88 to 91 degrees west. The combination of latitude and longitude coordinates gives the state its absolute location.

Describing the state in terms of where it is in relation to other places is relative location. Mississippi is bordered on the east by Alabama, by Tennessee on the north, by Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and by the Mississippi River on the west. These boundaries outline an area approximately 48,000 square miles with a north-south length of 350 miles and an east-west width of 180 miles. It ranks number 32 in size among the states of the United States and lies in the geographic center of the Gulf South.

Once the “where?” questions are answered and we know the state’s location, we can enhance the study of its geography by asking other questions: So what if Mississippi is located in the lower middle latitudes? What does it mean that the state is bordered by the Mississippi River? How has the state been shaped by where it is located?