Where in the World is Georgia?
This is the hemisphere Georgia is located in — actually, two hemispheres.
What are the Northern and Western Hemispheres?
This region contains rolling hills, red clay soil, and the Chattahoochee River.
What is the Piedmont Region?
This line divides the Piedmont and the Coastal Plain and is home to many of Georgia’s oldest cities.
What is the Fall Line?
The earliest of Georgia’s prehistoric cultures.
What is the Paleo culture?
This tribe — also called the Muskogee — lived mostly in southern Georgia.
Who are the Creek (Muscogee)?
This is the continent where you can find Georgia.
What is North America?
Located in the northwest corner, this region has plateaus and poor soil.
What is the Appalachian Plateau Region?
This massive swamp is the largest blackwater swamp in North America.
What is the Okefenokee Swamp?
These three crops — beans, corn, and squash — are known by this nickname.
What are the Three Sisters?
The four prehistoric cultures in order from earliest to most recent.
What are Paleo, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian?
These five U.S. states border Georgia.
What are Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida?
This region includes the highest mountains in Georgia and the beginning of the Appalachian Trail.
What is the Blue Ridge Region?
These islands protect Georgia’s mainland from storms and hurricanes.
What are the Barrier Islands?
Learning this skill allowed later prehistoric cultures to settle in one place.
What is farming (agriculture)?
Spanish priests and Native Americans disagreed about issues like revenge, dances, and this form of marriage.
What is polygamy?
Georgia sits in this climate zone, known for hot summers and mild winters.
What is the humid subtropical climate zone?
Featuring open valleys between narrow ridges, this region includes Red Top Mountain.
What is the Ridge and Valley Region?
These mountains bring tourism and contain important coalfields.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
These two things happened to the Mississippian culture when Europeans arrived.
What are the collapse of chiefdoms and deaths from disease?
These structures or communities broke apart in the Mississippian period as disease spread.
What are the large chiefdoms?
These two major rivers help form borders and provide water for the state.
What are the Savannah River and the Chattahoochee River?
Georgia’s largest region—known for flat land, sandy soil, barrier islands, and the Okefenokee Swamp.
What is the Coastal Plain?
Home to one of the nation’s busiest ports, this river forms Georgia’s northeastern border.
What is the Savannah River?
Before European arrival, this tribe lived mostly in northern Georgia in the mountains.
Who are the Cherokee?
This major reason explains why Woodland and Mississippian peoples no longer had to live nomadic lifestyles.
What are farming and storing food?