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.