Georgia Studies Grade 8 Unit 1 164778

A family owns a commercial seafood processing company and is looking to relocate in Georgia. They prefer wide-open, flat spaces with lots of farmland, and warm weather. Which Georgia region would this family MOST likely choose to live in?

• Appalachian

• Coastal Plain

• Piedmont

• Ridge

The states of Georgia and South Carolina are planning on working together on a project that would benefit both state governments. Which of the following project would they MOST likely collaborate on?

• building a dam on the Chattahoochee River

• a project to ensure the Savannah River stays clean

• starting an initiative to protect the Okefenokee Swamp

• a project to excavate iron from the Red Clay region

A settler in the 1800s’ would have been MOST

likely to start a new town in which of the following

areas?

• the Fall line

• along the Chattahoochee River

• near the Piedmont and Coastal Plan regions

• the Okefenokee Swamp

Which one of the five Georgia

regions would you find a skyline of midtown

Atlanta?

• Piedmont

• Coastal Plain

• Appalachian Plateau

• Blue Ridge

Which of the following water source was

significant to American Indians and European

settlers as well as millions of Georgians living in

the Piedmont area today?

• Okefenokee Swamp

• Appalachian River Basin

• Barrier Island run off to the fall line

• Chattahoochee River

Georgia is located on one of the world’s largest

land masses, identified as North America. What

is this land mass called?

• continent

• hemisphere

• nation

• parallels

During the 1500’s the Spanish set up missions

located off the coast of Georgia. Which of the

following BEST describes this area?

• Savannah River

• Okefenokee Swamp

• barrier islands

• Tybee Islands

What are three reasons the Savannah and Chattahoochee Rivers are important to Georgia?

• They provide drinking water for many parts of the state.

• They provide drinking water for the state of Texas.

• They provide hydroelectric power.

• They boost Georgia's economy through tourism, travel, and transportation.

Which of the following BEST summarizes how

the Interstate Highway System supports the

exchange of goods and services domestically

and internationally?

• by providing Georgian’s with traffic laws to keep

  order of service trucks from ports

  by providing a way for most of Georgia’s

• business shipments to be carried to their

  destination by truck

• by connecting our international airport to smaller

  domestic airports in the South

• by connecting other transportation systems in

  our state

Georgia has two of the nation’s busiest coastal

transportation hubs located in Savannah and

Brunswick. Which of the four major transportation

systems do these location represent?

• highways

• railways

• deepwater ports

• airports