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Georgia Georgia and the American Experienceand the American Experience
Chapter 2:Chapter 2:This Place We Call HomeThis Place We Call Home
Study Presentation Study Presentation
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Georgia Georgia and the American Experienceand the American Experience
Section 1: Georgia’s Flora and FaunaSection 1: Georgia’s Flora and Fauna
Section 2: Georgia’s Natural ResourcesSection 2: Georgia’s Natural Resources
Section 3: Georgia’s WaterwaysSection 3: Georgia’s Waterways
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Section 1: Georgia’s Flora and Fauna
• Essential Question:– What are Georgia’s flora and fauna?
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Section 1: Georgia’s Section 1: Georgia’s Flora and FaunaFlora and Fauna
• What geographic terms do I need to know?
-- flora
-- fauna
-- tides
-- watershed
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What is Flora?What is Flora?
• Flora: Plants, flowers, and trees• 180-day growing period in north Georgia• 270-day growing period in the coastal region• 23 million acres of forested land• Rome’s Marshall Forest: Only virgin forest
within a city limits in the United States• State known for giant live oaks, pines, peach
trees, pecan trees, dogwoods, and cherry blossoms
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What is Fauna?• Fauna: Animals, reptiles, birds, and sea life• White-tailed deer, squirrels, opossums, bats,
rabbits, hares, raccoons, and gray foxes• State marine mammal: Right (Baleen) whale• State bird: Brown thrasher; other birds
include quail, doves, hummingbirds, and woodpeckers
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Georgia’s Reptiles and Georgia’s Reptiles and Amphibians Amphibians
• Snakes include copperheads, cottonmouths (water moccasins), coral snakes, and rattlesnakes
• American alligators live in the Coastal Plain region
• Endangered loggerhead sea turtles live along the barrier islands
• 24 types of frogs, four species of toads, and 36 kinds of salamanders
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Georgia’s Fish and Sea LifeGeorgia’s Fish and Sea Life
• Trout fishing is popular in north Georgia• Large-mouth bass found across the
state in ponds and lakes• Blue crabs and pink shrimp popular
along the golden isles region• Shad, a fish delicacy found in the
Ogeechee River near Savannah, has a short harvesting season
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This alligator was photographed having lunch at Harris Neck Wildlife Refuge.
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This Burmese Python burst after swallowing a 6-ft. alligator. The snake was 13 ft. long.
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Section 2: Georgia’s Section 2: Georgia’s Natural ResourcesNatural Resources
• ESSENTIAL QUESTION– What are the natural resources of
Georgia?
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Section 2: Georgia’s Section 2: Georgia’s Natural ResourcesNatural Resources
• What words do I need to know? – stones and mineral resources
– kaolin and fuller’s earth
– gold
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Georgia’s Natural Stone Georgia’s Natural Stone ResourcesResources
• Marble is found primarily in Gilmer, Hall, and Pickens counties
• Granite is found mainly in Elbert and DeKalb counties
• Stone Mountain, in DeKalb County, is the world’s largest exposed granite rock
• Limestone and slate are mined in Georgia.
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Kaolin and Fuller’s earthKaolin and Fuller’s earth
• Clay products; very profitable• Fuller’s earth: Mined in Decatur, Grady,
Jefferson, and Thomas counties• Fuller’s earth is an absorbent used in kitty litter,
for oils and grease, and in soaps and medicines• Kaolin: Mined in Fall Line counties in east-
central Coastal Plain• Kaolin used in paper coating, paint filler, plastics
and rubber, as base for porcelain products
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Section 3: Georgia’s Section 3: Georgia’s WaterwaysWaterways
• ESSENTIAL QUESTION– How have waterways influenced
Georgia’s exploration, settlement, and economic development?
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Section 3: Georgia’s Section 3: Georgia’s WaterwaysWaterways
• What words do I need to know?
-- Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway
-- Semidiurnal tides
-- Estuaries
-- Reservoir
-- Aquifer
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Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway
• 1,000-mile inland waterway that runs from New York to Miami, Florida
• Between Georgia’s barrier islands and the Georgia coast
• gives commercial and recreational boating traffic safety from storms, strong currents, and waves of ocean routes.
• Savannah and Brunswick are Georgia’s two deep water ports
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Georgia’s Tides Georgia’s Tides
• A tide is a rise or fall of the sea level caused by gravitational pull of the sun and the moon
• Georgia’s coastline has six-foot to 9-foot tides (unusual)
• Georgia has semidiurnal tides (two high tides and two low tides daily)
• Spring tides (tides at highest) and neap tides (tides at their lowest)
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Coastal Waterways: The Saltwater Marshes
• Four- to six-mile band of saltwater marshes are between barrier islands and the mainland
• These marshes cover about 500,000 acres • Cordgrass makes up 95 percent of the
saltwater marsh vegetation• Sand fiddlers, mud fiddlers, snails, and crabs
are common • Provide food for herons, egrets, ibis,
sandpipers, and the endangered wood storks
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Coastal Waterways: Sloughs and Estuaries
• Freshwater sloughs (pronounced “slews”) are small ponds, swamps, and freshwater marshes
• Develop from marsh creeks that lose tidal flow• Provides fresh water for forest animals• Estuaries occur when freshwater rivers and
salt water mix; include tidal rivers, sounds, and marsh creeks
• Crab, shrimp, fish, and shellfish thrive in these waters
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Georgia’s Rivers • Twelve principal river systems • Savannah, Ogeechee, Altamaha (which
combines Oconee and Ocmulgee), and Satilla rivers flow into Atlantic Ocean
• Chattahoochee and Flint rivers become part of Gulf of Mexico
• Oostanaula and Etowah rivers form the Coosa River, which flows through Alabama to the Gulf.
• Alapaha, Suwannee, and St. Mary’s form the Georgia-Florida border
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Georgia’s Lakes
• No large natural lakes, but network of lakes formed from river system
• Many large lakes created by U.S. Corps of Engineers and the Georgia Power Company
• Carter Lake, Lake Lanier, Walter George, West Point, and Seminole generate hydroelectric power
• Thurmond Lake, Lake Oconee, and Lake Hartwell provide fishing, recreation, and boating opportunities
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Georgia’s Ports
• Bainbridge and Columbus harbor two inland barge terminals
• Savannah’s port, the nation’s fifth largest container port, focuses on containerized cargo
• Brunswick’s port handles auto shipping, heavy equipment, farm machinery, and luxury tour buses
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Reservoirs and Aquifers
• Little groundwater in northern half of Georgia
• Manmade Reservoirs (holding tanks) provide much water for northern Georgia
• Georgia major aquifers (natural water storage tanks) are in Coastal Plain
• Augusta features a nine-mile canal; today it is a National Park Heritage Area
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This Confederate powder mill was located on the Augusta Canal.
This photograph shows one of the canals locks. Locks routed water to the textile mills and other industries.
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Towpath on the Savannah-Ogeechee Canal.
One of the canal’s 6 locks located between the Ogeechee and Savanannah rivers.
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Floodgate on the Savannah-Ogeechee canal. The gates could be opened by one man.