Geography of Georgia
Regions
Prehistoric People
People, Places, and Things
Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral
100
The county that we live in; shaped like a house
What is Jasper County?
100
The region of Georgia that we live in.
What is the Piedmont Region?
100
the earliest civilization with evidence of settlements in Georgia
What is the Archaic civilization?
100
The fossilized whale housed in a museum in Macon.
What is Ziggy?
100
The material often used to make the tips of prehistoric spears
What is iron?
200
The river that runs from the Appalachian Mountains down the western border of Georgia.
What is the Chattahoochee River?
200
The upper northwest corner of the state.
What is the Appalachian Plateau?
200
The civilization known for the creation of the Clovis spear.
What is the Paleo Indian civilization?
200
The deepest cave in the United States, at 586 feet.
What is Ellison's Cave?
200
The state bird of Georgia
What is the brown thrasher?
300
The location of Atlanta, Georgia's modern capital.
What is Fulton County?
300
A region of alternating fertile valleys and rocky ridges between the Blue Ridge Mountains?
What is the Valley and Ridge Region?
300
The prehistoric civilization responsible for constructing the Indian Mounds in Georgia.
What is the Woodland Indian civilization?
300
The number of reported alligator attacks in the Okefenokee Swamp.
What is zero?
300
The product of mineral deposits and moisture in North Georgia caves.
What are crystals?
400
The first planned settlement in the United States.
What is Savannah, Ga?
400
The region of the state below the Fall Line, including Savannah and the Okefenokee Swamp.
What is the Coastal Plain?
400
The prehistoric civilization that was present in Georgia when the first European explorers arrived in 1540.
What is the Mississippian Indian civilization?
400
the location of a series of waterfalls caused by the passage of the Fall Line.
What is High Falls.
400
the mountain range that runs from Canada into North Georgia.
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
500
Three of the barrier islands off the coast of Georgia.
What are Tybee, Cumberland, and Jekyll Island? (answers may vary).
500
The Northernmost region of the State, where Brasstown Bald (the highest point) is located.
What is the Blue Ridge Region?
500
The acronym for the four prehistoric civilizations, and the mnemonic device we use to remember them.
What is PAWM- Paleo Ate Wooly Mammoth.
500
The previous capitals of Georgia, prior to Atlanta.
What is Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville?
500
The largest work of sculptural art in the United States.
What is the Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain.
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