Regions of Georgia
The northwestern most region of Georgia and is the only coal producing region in the state.
What is the Appalachian Plateau?
The largest freshwater swamp in the U.S.
What is the Okefenokee Swamp?
The hemispheres where Georgia can be found.
What are the Western and Northern hemispheres?
What is Gold?
These Native people lived in FL, GA, and AL when the Spanish first arrived in North America.
Who were the Mississippians?
This region has the state's highest elevation.
What is the Blue Ridge.
They protect Georgia's mainland from erosion.
What are the barrier islands?
What is the Southeast or the Sunbelt?
Spanish conquistador that explored Georgia in search of gold.
Who is Hernando Desoto?
Native people believed these hill like structures represented power.
What are mounds?
This region is located south of the Fall Line.
What is the Coastal Plain?
This marked the limit of travel up river and many major cities are located there.
What is the Fall Line?
These imaginary lines run north to south on the globe and measure how far east or west something is.
What is longitude?
Diseases spread by Europeans responsible for killing thousands of Native Americans (name 2)
What are smallpox, influenza, measles, and whooping cough?
What was the most prominent crop during the colonial period?
What is Maize/corn?
This region contains Georgia's most populated cities.
What is the Piedmont?
This river flows along Georgia's eastern border into the Atlantic Ocean. Its neighboring state is South Carolina.
What is the Savannah River?
This latitude line divides the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
These were set up by the Spanish on the Barrier Islands.
What are Spanish Missions?
After early European exploration, the Native people of Georgia lost thousands or possibly millions due to war, disease, and slavery. The surviving people reorganized into new nations. These were the largest two nations.
Who were the Creek and the Cherokee?
This region's topography was especially important for travel in the early days of Georgia's history.
What is Valley and Ridge?
Provides several areas of the state with drinking water and recreational activities.
What is the Chattahoochee River?
Which form of government is responsible for enforcing the laws?
What is Executive.
The sect of Christianity that the Spanish tried to convert the Native American to.
What is Catholicism?
Mississippian Indian cities were called these
What are chiefdoms?