Essential Question: What are some of Georgias Landforms

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Chapter 2 Lesson 1

• Essential Question What are some of Georgias
  Landforms?
• Hypothesis
• Answer

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Vocabulary

• Landform- natural land shape or feature
• Topography- Surface landforms of an area
• Sand dune-A hill of sand, made and shaped by wind

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Modeling Earths Landforms Lab

• Why might changes in hills and mountains be seen
  sooner than changes in plains?
• Scientists often use models to help them
  understand natural processes. Why might a model
  be used for understanding how landforms change?
• Why did you have to use a model to investigate
  how a landform changes?

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Mountains, Hills, and Plainsoh my

• Topographywhere does this word come from?
• Mountain-an area much higher than the surrounding
  land
• Often occur in groups called RANGES
• Which mountain range is higher Rocky Mountains
  or the Appalachian Mountains?
• How do their topographies differ?
• Volcanoes- usually occur as individual mountains
• Hills-like mountains, but not as high. Most have
  rounded slopes.

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Plains

• Plain-large, flat landform with little reliefwhy
  do you think they named them plains?
• Relief- the difference in elevation between high
  and low places.
• Elevation???
• Great Plains

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Landforms of Sand

• Why would these landforms be changed easier than
  others?
• Sand Dunehill made of sand that is shaped by the
  ______
• ______ can change sand dunes or even move them
• Sand spits
• Barrier islands
• Sandbars---
• What details about sand dunes make them different
  from hills?

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Landforms from Water

• Mesa
• Ex
• Where does the word Mesa come from?
• CanyonDeep valleys with steep sides
• What letter looks like a canyon?
• Ex
• How are most canyons formed?

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Georgias Geologic Regions

• What is Geology?
• Georgia is split into regions by its types of
  landforms
• Valley and Ridge region
• Blue Ridge region
• Piedmont Region
• Costal Plain

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Essential Question

• What are some of Georgias Landforms?
• A

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Regions of Georgia