plateau a large area of land that is flat and is raised above the surface of land around it http://socyberty.com/society/the-five-regions-of-georgia/

Appalachian Plateau the Appalachian Plateau http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/nyc/images/fig51.jpg http://www.ecoaction.gc.ca/news-nouvelles/images/Peel-Plateau-A9-A.-Mills.jpg

piedmont an area of land formed (or lying at) the foot of a mountain or mountain range the Piedmont in South Carolina with the Appalachian Mountains in the background http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/ecoregions/w50413piedmont57229.jpg

http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=2254 http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect6/Sect6_2.html

fall line boundary between an upland region and a coastal plain across which rivers from the upland region drop to the plain as falls or rapids The Fall Line is the boundary between the hilly Piedmont and the flat Coastal Plain. It's called the Fall Line because the first falls or rapids in rivers that one encounters as one comes inland from the ocean are usally found at this boundary, as the streams drop off the Piedmont and onto the Coastal Plain. http://bungakubu.kokushikan.ac.jp/chiri/EarthWacht/Nov2003/FallLine.jpg

From southern New York State to northern North Carolina: The white areas along the fall line are urban areas showing up on satellite. http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/1122EUSMISR.html

Maryland Great Falls on the Potomac http://www.flickr.com/photos/74104660@N00/533824423/in/photostream/

Fall Line in Virginia http://scott.k12.va.us/martha2/piedmont.htm

North Carolina http://activerain.com/blogsview/98083/harnett-county-raven-rock-state-park

Georgia Fall Line http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/imagedays/fallline.htm

Cities sprang up east of the Fall Line, because ships needed a place to unload and switch their cargo to land-based carriers. http://photo.pds.org:5005/student/extmedia?id=ar190640&st=appalachian+mountains&em=lr005123

There was even a “Fall Line Road.” http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bruckner/maps/colonial_roads_1750.jpg

natural boundary a boundary based on a natural feature of the land – for example, a river, a mountain range, a cliff, or a coast http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/virginia/map.htm

Are any of Oklahoma’s borders natural boundaries? http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/oklahoma/

artificial boundary a boundary decided without a natural feature of the land to guide the boundary This usually is based on longitude or latitude. http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/utah/

Kansas-Oklahoma border http://beattye.pbworks.com/f/1219815045/Oklahoma%20sign.jpg

What natural boundaries does California have? What artificial ones? http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/california/map.htm

What about Louisiana’s boundaries? http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/louisiana/

And New Jersey’s boundaries? http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/new-jersey/

And what about Idaho? http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/idaho/

Using the physical map of the east coast, draw in what you think would be logical boundaries for the states listed. http://etc.usf.edu/maps/pages/1000/1029/1029.gif

work time . . .

How similar were your boundary decisions with the actual boundaries?

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