1. Unit One- Our Special State Chapter One-Where in the World is Georgia?
SS8G1: The student will describe Georgia with regard to physical features and location. a. Locate Georgia in relation to region, nation, continent and hemisphere.

2. Key Terms geography latitude relative location longitude
absolute location axis
equator prime meridian
parallels hemisphere
meridians

3. Our World The prime meridian runs through Africa, Europe, and Britain
(Greenwich England).
The equator divides the world into
the northern and southern
hemispheres.

4. Which hemisphere can Georgia be found in?

5. Chapter 2- Geographic Regions

6. Key Terms
region trade winds wetland barrier island Fall line climate weather vertical climate drought hurricane

7. Five Regions
Appalachian Plateau
Ridge and Valley
Blue Ridge
Piedmont Plateau
Coastal Plain

8. Appalachian Plateau
Appalachian plateau- Northwestern corner of Georgia where Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia meet (“TAG Corner”)

9. Appalachian Plateau
Soil is a mixture of limestone, shale and sandstone
2,000 feet above sea level
Mountainous with waterfalls
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National
Military Park- historic Civil war battle sites
Smallest region

10. Appalachian Plateau

11. Ridge and Valley Region
Located between Blue Ridge Mountains and Appalachian Plateau
Land Ranges between feet above
sea level
Open Valleys and narrow ridges with forests
and pastures
Regions goes from Polk & Bartow Counties to
Chattanooga, TN

12. Ridge and Valley Region
Grain, cattle and apple orchards fill the valleys and ridges

13. Ridge and Valley
Known for its industry, especially textiles and carpets
Dalton Georgia is called the “carpet capital of the world”

14. Blue Ridge Region Northeastern part of the state
Highest and largest group of mountains in Georgia are found here
Barrier to warm, moist air rising from Gulf of Mexico
Large amounts of precipitation from the warm air cooling in the mountains- more than 80 inches per year
Provide water for the entire state
Soil erosion due to shallow soil and steep
slopes

15. Blue Ridge region

16. Blue Ridge region
Brasstown Bald is highest peak in the state, (in the south, a high mountain that is treeless on top is called a “bald”), Peak is almost 5,000 feet high, (much higher than the Appalachian plateau)
Amicalola falls
Tallulah Gorge
Helen (Alpine community)
Tallulah Gorge

17. Amicalola Falls

18. Helen, Georgia

19. Appalachian Mountains
All three of Georgia’s northern regions are part of the Appalachian mountains
The Ridge and Valley region marks the beginning of the Appalachian Trail
Many people hike from it’s starting point in Dahlonega, Georgia to it’s end in Maine, (2,144 miles)

20. How the Appalachians Formed
About 900 millions years ago, the continents joined together to form one super continent
The collision formed the Appalachians
The land drifted apart again over millions of years and the first Appalachians eroded into what is now known as the Atlantic Ocean
Then the continents began to drift back together about 500 million years ago and formed a 2nd set of Appalachian mountains from the sediment on the Ocean floor.
Every time the continents collided, new mountains formed and the old ones were pushed further west. This is why there are several sets of parallel ridges in the Appalachian mountains.

21. PANGEA

22. Piedmont Begins at the mountain foothills of northern Georgia
Means “foot of the mountain”
1/3 of Georgia's land area
Land is granite –based, with sandy loam and clay soils (“Georgia red clay”
Well-drained and suitable for agriculture

23. Piedmont Half of the state’s population live in the piedmont region
Prior to Civil War it was the cotton belt
Crops today are: soybeans, corn, poultry, wheat, and cattle
Soybean field in Cartersville, GA Georgia.org

24. Cities in the
Piedmont Region
Atlanta
Athens
Madison
Milledgeville

26. Coastal Plain

27. Upper and Lower Coastal Plains
Upper Coastal Plains
Mild climate
Good supply of underground water
Major agricultural region (most of the crops grown in GA come from this region)
Soil varies from limestone to clay
Vidalia Upland- onions
Dougherty Plain-peanuts, corn, and pecan trees

28. Fall Line