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Geography in the Southeast
Lower Region Beaches Swamps Wetlands
Great Dismal Swamp in south of Virginia and northern part of North Carolina
Okefenokee Swamp in southern Georgia and Northern Florida One of the largest
swamps in North America
Everglades Southern Florida
Marshes and swamps
Atlantic Coastal Plain Gulf Coastal Plain
Land along Atlantic Almost all a flat
plain Southward from
Maryland to Florida
Land along the gulf of Mexico Almost all a flat
plain
Appalachian Mountains West of the Piedmont Divide between the
rivers that flow into the Atlantic and those that drain into the Gulf of Mexico
Blue Ridge Mountains Central part of
Appalachians Dense forests
Piedmont Plateau Great for farming
Forests Orchards Pastures
Fall Line Between
highlands of the Piedmont Plateau and the lowlands of the Coastal Plain
Fertile Lowland Extends
southward across Kentucky and Tennessee into Alabama
Good soil for tobacco and dairy farming
Rivers Rivers cut through
the Coastal Plain leading to the Atlantic Ocean or the gulf of Mexico
Mississippi River Delta soil
Fertile
Fertile Soil Fertile soil in large
port cities of Norfolk, Virginia, and Savannah, Georgia
You teach me! You may use this
information and maps to make a map of the physical features of the southeast.
What does fertile mean? On the back of your
map, make an inference of what you think the definition of fertile may be.
We will hear this term again throughout the unit and learn how it connects to the southeast region.