1. What are some of Georgia’s landforms?

2. All the kinds of landforms in a certain area.
topography
All the kinds of landforms in a certain area.

3. Topography of Tate, GA

4. Why are these two mountain ranges so different?
Appalachian Mountains are lower and more rounded
Rocky Mountains form tall jagged peaks

5. Why are the Appalachian Mountains more rounded than the Rockies?
Because they are older and have been
worn away by wind and rain

6. Similar landforms, different topographies
Volcanoes usually occur as individual mountains
Mountains occur in groups called ranges

7. Sand dunes, sand spits, and sand bars

8. How are sand dunes formed? What makes them different from hills?
  - They are made and shaped by the wind.   - A sand dune can move as much as 100 ft. in a year, whereas hills are shaped more slowly.

9. Barrier islands

10. Mesas

11. Canyons

12. How was the Grand Canyon formed?
- By the Colorado River cutting deeper and wider over   thousands of years.

13. Georgia’s four geologic regions

14. Valley and Ridge

15. Blue Ridge

16. Piedmont

17. Coastal Plain