5 Regions of Georgia
This is Georgia's largest geographic region and is located primarily in the southern and southeastern parts of the state.
What is the Coastal Plain?
This is Georgia's highest point.
What is Brasstown Bald?
Transportation mode used when importing or exporting heavy cargo to or from other countries-
BONUS- List the TWO main cities in Georgia that have this transportation system
1. What are Deepwater Ports?
2. BONUS- What are Savannah & Brunswick?
A person who starts and operates a business while accepting financial risk.
What is an entrepreneur?
Money earned from working a job or another source.
What is Income?
This region is located in northeastern Georgia and contains the state's highest elevations, including Brasstown Bald.
What is the Blue Ridge Region?
This famous Georgia geographic feature is a large wetland located in the southeastern part of the state and is associated with the Coastal Plain.
What is the Okefenokee Swamp?
This mode of transportation is used to carry heavy, bulky material such as coal, rock, or heavy machinery around the Georgia or neighboring states.
What is the Railroad System?
The amount of money that a company makes AFTER expenditures is known as-
What is income?
This is a plan that helps a person track income, control spending, and work toward financial goals.
What does this plan help people to avoid?
What is a budget?
What is debt?
This region contains many of Georgia's largest cities and population centers and is characterized by rolling hills and red clay soil.
What is the Piedmont Region?
These geographic boundaries protects Georgia's coastline from water erosion from hurricanes & tropical storms form the Ocean.
What is the Barrier Islands?
A company that ships produce exclusively around the state would use this transportation mode to do it-
What is the Interstate Highway System?
The total amount of Sales that a business makes BEFORE paying for any expenditures is known as-
What is Revenue?
When you spend money on needs or wants, these are known as-
A company wants to locate near Georgia's carpet manufacturing industry. It also wants to be in an area characterized by long, narrow ridges separated by valleys. Which physiographic region would be the best fit?
What is the Ridge and Valley Region?
1. The large river that starts in the Blue Ridge and establishes the border between Georgia and South Carolina.
2. The large river that starts in the Blue Ridge and establishes the border between Georgia and Alabama
1. What is the Savannah River?
2. What is the Chattahoochee River?
Provide the name of the center of this transportation mode in Georgia-
1. What are Airports/Planes?
2. What is Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport?
List 3 major companies that have been founded in the State of Georgia-
What are:
Coca-Cola
Home Depot
Aflac
Waffle House
Chick-Fil-A
Georgia Pacific
Delta Airlines
List 3 reasons why people should save money-
What is:
1. To prepare for emergencies
2. To save up for bigger purchases
3. To save for retirement
Match the following key economic sources to the 5 Georgia Regions:
Heavy Agriculture
Heavy Timber
Manufacturing, Business & a Lot Else
Textiles/Carpet
Coal, & basically nothing else
What are:
Coastal Plain
Blue Ridge
Piedmont
Ridge & Valley
Appalachian Plateau
A factory owner in the 1800s wants to build a mill. The owner needs a dependable source of energy and is considering a location where rivers experience a significant drop in elevation.
What geographic feature should the owner look for, and WHY would that location be useful?
1. What is the Fall Line?
2. What is the elevation drop creates waterfalls that are used to generate hydroelectric power?
A Georgia company manufactures products and sells them to customers in Europe.
The products travel:
Factory → Truck → Georgia Port → Ship → Europe
Identify the type of trade represented by the products leaving Georgia AND the term used to describe using more than 1 mode of transportation to ship a good.
2. What is Intermodal Transportation?
List 3 ways that Entrepreneurs can help boost the Economy in Georgia-
What are:
1. Provide jobs for Georgians
2. Help provide new products/services for people
3. Help bring more money into Georgia through purchases
List 3 acceptable reasons for people to use debt-
What is:
1. To purchase a home (mortgage)
2. To go to college (student loans)
3. To start a business (entrepreneurship)
4. To begin building up credit (using a credit card responsibly & paying it off each month with your income)