Georgia's Location
The 2 hemispheres that Georgia is located in.
What are the Northern and Western Hemispheres?
The region inbetween the Appalachian Plateau and Blue Ridge. The weather is cooler and the soil quality is rich in the valleys.
Dalton, Georgia is located here and is known as the carpet capital of the world. Carpet and Agriculture are the main industry here.
What is the Ridge and Valley Region/ Valley and Ridge Region/ Ride and Valley/ Valley and Ridge?
This river separates Georgia from Alabama and extremely important because it is a major source of water and hydroelectric power to factories and mills. This river starts all the way in Blue Ridge.
What is the Chatahoochee River?
The chronological order of the Prehistoric Native Americans eras/ periods.
What is Paleo, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian?
The European country that led the Age of Exploration.
Hint: Hernando De Soto was from this country and Christopher Columbus was funded by them too.
What is Spain?
The nation that Georgia is apart of that bleeds red, white, and blue.
What is The United States of America/ America/ United States/ U.S./ The U.S.A ?
The largest region, taking up 60% of Georgia, and has a mostly agricultural-based industry. Peanuts, Vidalia onions, Peaches, Cotton, Pecans, and etc. are grown here.
Was once covered up by a pre-historic ocean. The Okefenokee Swamp is located here. Hot summers and mild winters.
What is the Coastal Plain Region/ the Coastal Plains?
The physical feature that seperates the Piedmont Region from the Coastal Plain Region. Macon, Milledgeville, Augusta, and Columbus are located on it.
Once marked a prehistoric ocean that covered more than half of Georgia. Now has various waterfalls and red clay/ dirt.
What is the Fall Line?
The last group of pre-historic Native Americans to be living in Georgia before European contact was made.
Agriculture (large scale farming) was done by this group and they lived in large villages known as towns and communities.
What is the Mississippian Indians?
The 3 G's that sum up the reason for Spanish/ European Exploration.
What is God, Gold, and Glory?
The horizontal line that "cuts the globe in half". Places along or close to this line are hot almost all year round. Georgia is located north of this line.
What is the equator?
It's name means "foot of the heels". The most populated region, taking up 30% of Georgia, and stops at the Fall Line. Contains most of the states major cities, including the capital (Atlanta).
Industry is based on poultry (chicken), mining and manufacturing. Stone Mountain is also located here. Temperatures are hot and humid.
What is the Piedmont Region/ Piedmont?
It is located in the Coastal Plain Region and is the 2nd largest freshwater wetland in North America.
It is under Federal protection and is the habitat to thousands of plants, bugs, and animals.
What is the Okefenokee Swamp?
The first group of pre-historic Native Americans to exist. They were nomadic, lived during the Ice Age, followed and hunted big game such as Wooly Mammoths with projectile points and clovis points.
Who are the Paleo-Indians?
The first explorer to land in Georgia in search for gold and information, enslaving and killing thousands of Indians both directly and indirectly.
Who was Hernando De Soto?
The continent that Georgia is located in.
What is North America?
The region has the most rainfall and the highest elevation. Temperatures are cooler here. Industry is mainly tourism and forestry.
Brasstown Bald is located there as well as the Appalachian Trail, Amicolala Falls, and Tallulah Gorge. The first gold rush in the U.S. took place there.
What is the Blue Ridge Region/ Blue Ridge?
The 14 small bits of land in the Atlantic Ocean that help protect the mainland from erosion and had forts built upon them to protect the Georgia colony and the British settlers from the Spanish in Florida. Now they are mainly used as popular tourist places.
What are the Barrier Islands?
The first prehistoric group of native americans that used the bow and arrow and showed the earliest evidence of horticulture.
The Rock Eagle Effigy in Georgia was made by this group.
Who are the Woodland Indians?
This European country was last to join the Age of Exploration and would end up allying with the Native Americans to push Spanish explorers and settlers back to Florida.
What is England/ Great Britain?
The U.S. region that Georgia is located in.
What is the southeast/ southeastern region?
The smallest region of Georgia and is known as the TAG (Tennessee- Alabama- Georgia) Corner. Their industry is based on coal, tourism, and forestry.
The temperatures are cooler and the soil has poor quality so not much agriculture is done there.
What is the Appalachian Plateau Region/ Appalachian Plateau?
Known as the Blue Ridge Mountains and is the southern most tip of the rest of the stretch which goes all the way to the state of Maine.
What are the Appalachain Mountans?
The first group of prehistoric Native Americans to use the atalatl, a hand-held tool to help throw darts with a greater force.
The Ice Age ended during this group's time, causing the group to hunt smaller game. This group moved with the seasons and lived near rivers during the spring and summer months.
Who are the Archaic Indians?
Another word for church and were put in place in the new world to convert Native Americans to Christians.
What are Missions?