Geography Regions
This is the largest geographic region in Georgia known for its warm climate and agriculture like peanuts.
What is the Coastal Plain?
This river forms part of Georgia’s western border with Alabama and is popular for rafting and fishing.
What is the Chattahoochee River?
The American Indian culture living in Georgia when Europeans arrived, known for building earthen mounds.
Who were the Mississippians?
He was the first European to lead a major expedition through the area that would become Georgia.
Who was Hernando de Soto?
The average weather conditions in a region over a long period.
What is climate?
This region contains the highest mountains and receives the most rainfall in Georgia.
What is the Blue Ridge?
These islands protect Georgia’s mainland from storms and erosion.
What are the Barrier Islands?
The main crop grown by Mississippian American Indians.
What is maize (corn)?
Spanish missions were established in Georgia to do this.
What is to convert Native Americans to Christianity?
The wearing away of land by wind or water.
What is erosion?
The Fall Line is the natural boundary between this region and the Coastal Plain.
What is the Piedmont?
This swamp is the largest freshwater swamp in North America, located in southeast Georgia.
What is the Okefenokee Swamp?
These structures were made from sticks woven together and covered in mud or clay, used mainly for sleeping.
What are wattle-and-daub shelters?
This was the Europeans’ main goal in exploring the Western Hemisphere in the 1500s.
What is finding a water route to Asia for trade?
A large farm where crops like sugar were grown by English colonists.
What is a plantation?
This region is the smallest in Georgia and contains coalfields and caves.
What is the Appalachian Plateau?
A natural boundary with waterfalls that helped power early mills and cities like Macon and Augusta.
What is the Fall Line?
This term describes objects like tools and pottery left behind by earlier peoples.
What are artifacts?
This term describes a journey taken for a specific purpose, like exploration.
What is an expedition?
A person who buys and sells goods for a profit between producers and consumers.
What is a middleman?
This region is known for its ridges and valleys and is located northwest of the Piedmont.
What is the Valley and Ridge?
This river forms part of the Georgia-South Carolina border and empties into the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Savannah River?
Mississippian towns were often surrounded by these defensive structures, like palisades and guard towers.
What are moats and palisades?
Europeans brought these animals and plants from the Old World to the New World (name two).
What are horses, pigs, chickens, sugar?
The beliefs, traditions, and way of life shared by a group of people.
What is culture?