Georgia Geography

What hemispheres is Georgia located in?

• Georgia is part of Europe

• Georgia is south of the Equator

• Georgia is located in the Eastern and Southern Hemispheres

• Georgia is located in the Western and Northern Hemispheres

What region in the United States is Georgia located in?

• Northeast

• Northwest

• Southeast

• Southwest

Which statement explains why archaeologists believe that Mississippians Indians had a religion in some form of life after death?

• Legends of an afterlife were passed down orally from generation to generation until today

• Burial mounds for the dead contained items such as tools, tobacco pipes and weapons

• Pictographs and cave drawings depicted a spiritual world after the living world

• Tribal centers had spiritual ceremonies in large churches and cemeteries

Which region is it describing:

-flat land in southern Georgia

-hot summers, cool winters

-many agricultural products like ; peanuts, onions and timber

-deep water ports

• Piedmont Region

• Blue Ridge Region

• Coastal Plain Region

• Appalachian Plateau Region

If you are visiting Lookout Mountain in the northwest corner of the state and is the only source for coal, what region in Georgia are you in?

• Piedmont Region

• Blue Ridge Region

• Coastal Plains Region

• Appalachian Plateau Region

If you are in the Appalachian Plateau, through what region would you cross through to go to Atlanta?

• Fall Line Region

• Blue Ridge Region

• Coastal Plains Region

• Ridge and Valley Region

Which elements are part of the Mississippian Indian Culture and society ?

• female warrior-chiefs

• chiefdoms

• small tribes of nomadic hunters-gathers

• president

What impact did agricultural have on the Mississippian society?

• Agricultural forced Mississippian Indians to become more nomadic in order to have enough land to hunt game

• Agricultural allowed both male and female Mississippians Indians to have completely equal political and social roles in society

• Agricultural allowed Mississippian Indians to stay in one location for a longer time, which led to more sophisticated societies and class systems

• Agricultural forced Mississippian Indians to give up the use of all hunting tools and weapons and they only developed farming tools for use on plantations

What is the importance of the Piedmont Region of Georgia?

• It is a producer of lumber, marble, textiles and is known as "carpet capitol of the world"

• It is the location of Georgia's tallest mountain, Brasstown Bald and has the most precipitation in the state

• It is the most populated which contains large amounts of red clay and granite and is known as "foot of the mountains"

• Kt is divided into Inner and Outer regions which produces the most crops in the state and is the location of Georgia's deep-water ports

If you are hiking from Georgia to Maine along the Appalachian Trail, what region would impact the tourism?

• Blue Ridge Region

• Coastal Plain Region

• Ridge and Valley Region

• Appalachian Plateau Region