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The highest point in GA. It is in the Blue Ridge Mtns. Region.
What is Brasstown Bald?
This river was home to the Native Americans who built Indian Mounds just south of Cartersville.
What is the Etowah River?
This river is one of the most natural rivers in GA and the clear waters become darker as decaying materials become part of its route.
What is the Ogeechee River?
The largest swamp in GA.
What is Okefenokee Swamp?
The largest island in GA.
What is Cumberland Island?
This separates the hard rock of the Piedmont region from the softer, sandier soil of the Coastal Plain region.
What is the Fall Line?
This river is an important source of water for GA, AL, & FL.
What is the Chattahoochee?
Starts south of Atlanta, crosses the Fall Line in Macon and enters the Coastal Plain. It runs through Lumber City and in the nineteenth century lumber was an important part of the area's economy.
What is the Ocmulgee River?
Most of GA's swamps are found in this region in GA.
What is the Coastal Plain?
Home to GA's Sea Turtle Center. Many of the country's wealthiest men stayed here in the 1800s.
What is Jekyll Island?
The largest region in the state.
What is the Coastal Plain?
This river forms the eastern boundary separating GA & SC.
What is the Savannah River?
This is very popular for fisherman and flows over 200 miles before reaching the first dam at Lake Blackshear.
What is the Flint River?
What are swamps?
GA's barrier islands protect the mainland from these 2 things.
What are winds and waves?
One of the oldest mountain chains in the world runs through Northern Georgia.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This river meets the Fall Line in Milledgville and Dublin is on its route.
What is the Oconee River?
This is one of the most challenging rivers for whitewater rafting and canoeing and it arises in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
What is the Chattooga River?
Some of the animals that live in the Okefenokee Swamp. Name at least 5.
What are alligators, snakes, lizards, frogs, migrating birds, wading birds, like storks and cranes, ducks, otters, beavers, gray fox, deer, black bear?
The islands off the coast of GA. Name at least 7 of them. There are 14.
What is Tybee Island, Little Tybee, Wassaw, Ossabaw, St. Catherine’s, Blackbeard, Sapelo, Wolf, Little St. Simons, Sea, St. Simons, Jekyll, Little Cumberland, and Cumberland Island?
All the five geographic regions of GA. Name at least 4 of them...
What is the Appalachian Plateau, the Ridge and Valley area, the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Piedmont, and the Coastal Plain?
This is one of Georgia's black water rivers. It is joined by the Ohoopee River along the way, enters the Atlantic Ocean near Darien, and William Bartram studied natural history called it the "large majestic river."
What is the Altamaha River?
These two rivers are used for nuclear power facilites. Name at least one.
What is the Savannah and Altamaha Rivers?
The amount of swamps in GA.
What is over 450?
These 3 islands are owned by the state of GA.
What are Tybee, Ossabaw, and Sapelo Islands?