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Lesson One- Georgia’s Location
Our continent, North America, is located in the ________Northern_______ and ____Western_____ Hemispheres
Georgia is located in the _______Southeastern_______ region of the United States.
Georgia is surrounded by five states (Tennessee and _________North Carolina_______ to the North, South Carolina to
the
___East__, Florida to the________South_________, and _______Alabama_____ to the West) as
well as the _______Atlantic__________Ocean.
_______Relative_______ location is Georgia’s location in relationship to the surrounding states.
To understand relative location, you simply need to know the four ______Cardinal_________ ______Directions_____.
Never Eat Shredded Wheat
What do you remember about…
Georgia’s location???
1. Is Georgia in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere? _____Northern____
2. Is Georgia in the Eastern or Western Hemisphere? _______Eastern_______
3. On which continent is Georgia located? _________North America_________
4. Georgia is part of what nation ______The United States of America______
5. In what region of the nation (northwestern, northeastern, southwestern,
southeastern) would you find Georgia? ____________southeastern_____________
6. Which five states border Georgia? _____Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, and Alabama______
Lesson Two- Georgia’s Regions
Georgia has many different types of landforms, each of these make up ____physical____ or geographic
(sometimes called ______physiographic____) regions. In Georgia, there are five distinct physiographic regions. They are:
__Blue___Ridge, Valley and ____Ridge_____, Appalachian ___Plateau__, the ___Piedmont___, and ____Coastal___
Plain.
The Appalachian Plateau-smallest of all regions
-includes only Dade and part of Walker County in extreme northwest Georgia
-consists of narrow valleys and wooded, rocky ridges, like Lookout Mountain
-Georgia’s only source of fossil fuel (coal)
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The Blue Ridge
-Georgia’s tallest mountain/highest peak: Brasstown Bald (4784 feet above sea level)
- contains Georgia’s highest amount of annual rainfall
- southernmost point in the great Appalachian Mountain chain
-site of the first gold rush in American history (1828)
Valley and Ridge
-consists of several mountain ridges and valleys created between them
- mining, farming and textile/carpet manufacturing are the most important industries
Piedmont
-most populated region of the state (over half the states population)
-contains Atlanta
-contains most of Georgia’s famous peaches
-most of the region’s soil is red clay
-most important industrial region of the state
Coastal Plain
-largest region
-most of Georgia’s peanut, cotton, and vegetable farms are located here
-location of the first European inhabitants of Georgia, who settled along the coast at Savannah
What do you remember about… Georgia’s physiographic regions???
___d__ 1. Contains GA’s highest peak, Brasstown Bald
___c_ 2. Contains most of GA’s peanut and cotton farms
___e__ 3. The smallest physiographic region
___d__ 4. Has GA’s highest amount of annual rainfall
___a__ 5. The most populated of GA’s regions.
___b__ 6. Contains mountain ridges with valleys between
___e__ 7. Contains GA’s only source of a fossil fuel (coal)
___a__ 8. The location of GA’s capital and largest city
___c__ 9. The largest of GA’s regions, in terms of land
A. Piedmont
B. Valley & Ridge
C. Coastal Plain
D. Blue Ridge
E. Appalachian Plateau
Lesson Three- Georgia’s Physical Features
There are several key physical features that have tremendously impacted Georgia’s development, from swamps, to
islands, to waterfalls.
It would be difficult to ___farm___ in areas with lots of large rocky cliffs, mountains, and waterfalls.
It would be extremely difficult to set up a ____factor____ or business, such as a carpet ________ l, in areas with lots of
swamps.
If you lived on the ocean, you might want to consider a career in the fishing industry, or you might want
to work at one of Georgia’s deep _____sea ports____
1. FALL LINE- The Fall Line is a dramatic ___drop__ in elevation that runs through the ___middle___ of Georgia. It
divides the ____Piedmont______ and _____coastal______ regions.
2. OKEFENOKEE SWAMP- Located in southeastern Georgia, the Okefenokee Swamp is the _second___largest freshwater
swamp in the entire _____United States_____.
3. APPALACHIAN MTNS. - The southern end of the Appalachian Mountains are in Georgia’s __Blue Ridge___ region.
4. CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVER- Georgia’s most important river
Major transportation route that carries cotton and other freight, furnishes hydroelectric power to factories and mills,
and a major source of drinking water
5. SAVANNAH RIVER- The Savannah River was extremely important to Georgia’s first __European___ settlers.
6. BARRIER ISLANDS- In Georgia’s early days, the barrier islands were used as places to build __forts__ to protect against
___enemy____ countries like __Spain____.
What do you remember about… Georgia’s physical features???
___c__ 1. This feature flows along GA’s eastern border.
___e__ 2. Gold was found in this area in the early 1800s.
___f__ 3. Forts were built here to defend GA’s early settlers.
___b__ 4. This area is a wildlife refuge for over 1000 species.
___a__ 5. This geographical boundary separates the Coastal
Plain from the Piedmont.
___d__ 6. This major river provides drinking water and forms
part of the state’s western border with Alabama.
A. Fall Line
B. Okefenokee Swamp
C. Savannah River
D. Chattahoochee River
E. Appalachian Mtns.
F. Barrier Islands
Write a summary paragraph:
Based off of what you know regarding Georgia’s location, physiographic regions, physical features and climate, how has
Georgia’s LOCATION affected Georgia’s culture, economy, and development???
Georgia is a unique state. We mold rural and urban areas together so gracefully that
it’s hard to even realize that you’re in a different place than you were 50 miles down that
Georgia road trip you’re going on. Our state is usually very hot and humid during the
summer and chilly with little to no snow during the winter and has very fertile land that
also happens to be very stable in most areas, making it perfect for farming. So that’s what
they did when the British first settled the state originally named after their king, King
George. Colonists farmed and up until the first World War, we were still mostly into
agriculture and not much else. We are notorious for peaches, peanuts, cotton, Vidalia
onions, which are all based on our agriculture and farming cultures until recently, when
we began to upgrade the industries we work in.
The Piedmont region contains about half of Georgia’s population. This is
because most of our industries nowadays are headquartered at the heart of the Piedmont,
Atlanta, which is also the state capital. Lake Lanier, a man-made lake, is fairly close to
Atlanta, and supplies most of the area’s drinking water, which would not have been there
in the first place if not for the Chattahoochee, which is nature-made. Georgia’s Blue Ridge
Mountains provide a blockade for the moisture that comes up from the Gulf of Mexico,
which makes the water vapor condensate and provide water for the rest of the state,
filling up Lake Lanier, and rivers like the Chattahoochee. The economy of Georgia, for most
of history, has been based on agriculture and those notorious harvests that we produce.
However, like stated before, it has changed ever since World War I, when the Great
Depression ended and people were trying new things, like forming new businesses and
providing new goods and services to the people of Georgia. Our Hartsfield-Jackson Airport
is now the busiest airport in the world, Coca-Cola, which was invented here, is so popular
now that only two countries in the world don’t sell their products, and Zoo Atlanta is
among the oldest zoos in the US. All of this is because of Georgian’s entrepreneurialism.
Georgia is truly a great place to live, not only because of its people or “southern
hospitality,” but also simply of its location, its mildness and harshness in nature, and that’s
what I love about Georgia.