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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/
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http://www.ecoaction.gc.ca/news-nouvelles/images/Peel-Plateau-A9-A.-Mills.jpg Appalachian Plateau http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/nyc/images/fig51.jpg
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piedmont an area of land formed (or lying at) the foot of a mountain or mountain range http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/ecoregions/w50413piedmont57229.jpg
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http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect6/Sect6_2.htmlhttp://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=2254
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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 http://bungakubu.kokushikan.ac.jp/chiri/EarthWacht/Nov2003/FallLine.jpg
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http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/1122EUSMISR.html
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/74104660@N00/533824423/in/photostream/
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http://scott.k12.va.us/martha2/piedmont.htm
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http://activerain.com/blogsview/98083/harnett-county-raven-rock-state-park
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http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/imagedays/fallline.htm
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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
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There was even a “Fall Line Road.” http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bruckner/maps/colonial_roads_1750.jpg
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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
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http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/oklahoma/ Are any of Oklahoma’s borders natural boundaries?
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Google earth image of Red River at Okla/Tx border http://www.notsogreen.com/images/3230812955_GoogleLarge.jpg
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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/
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http://beattye.pbworks.com/f/1219815045/Oklahoma%20sign.jpg Kansas-Oklahoma border
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http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/california/map.htm What natural boundaries does California have? What artificial ones?
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http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/louisiana/ What about Louisiana’s boundaries?
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http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/new-jersey/ And New Jersey’s boundaries?
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http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/idaho/ And what about Idaho?
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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
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How similar were your boundary decisions to the actual boundaries?
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