plateau
a large area of land that is flat and is raised
above the surface of land around it
http://socyberty.com/society/the-five-regions-of-georgia/
Appalachian
Plateau
http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/nyc/images/fig51.jpg
http://www.ecoaction.gc.ca/news-nouvelles/images/Peel-Plateau-A9-A.-Mills.jpg
piedmont
an area of land formed (or lying at) the
foot of a mountain or mountain range
http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/ecoregions/w50413piedmont57229.jpg
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=2254
http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect6/Sect6_2.html
fall line
boundary between an upland region
and a coastal plain across which rivers
from the upland region drop to the
plain as falls or rapids
http://bungakubu.kokushikan.ac.jp/chiri/EarthWacht/Nov2003/FallLine.jpg
http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/1122EUSMISR.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/74104660@N00/533824423/in/photostream/
http://scott.k12.va.us/martha2/piedmont.htm
http://activerain.com/blogsview/98083/harnett-county-raven-rock-state-park
http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/imagedays/fallline.htm
Cities sprang up
east of the Fall
Line, because
ships needed a
place to unload
and switch their
cargo to landbased carriers.
http://photo.pds.org:5005/student/extmedia?id=ar190640&st=appalachian+mountains&em=lr005123
There was
even a “Fall
Line Road.”
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bruckner/maps/colonial_roads_1750.jpg
natural boundary
a boundary based on a natural feature
of the land – for example, a river, a
mountain range, a cliff, or a coast
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/virginia/map.htm
Are any of Oklahoma’s borders natural boundaries?
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/oklahoma/
Google
earth image
of Red River
at Okla/Tx
border
http://www.notsogreen.com/images/3230812955_GoogleLarge.jpg
artificial boundary
a boundary decided without a
natural feature of the land to guide
the boundary
This usually is
based on
longitude or
latitude.
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/utah/
Kansas-Oklahoma border
http://beattye.pbworks.com/f/1219815045/Oklahoma%20sign.jpg
What natural boundaries does California have?
What artificial ones?
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/california/map.htm
What about Louisiana’s boundaries?
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/louisiana/
And New Jersey’s boundaries?
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/new-jersey/
And what about Idaho?
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/idaho/
Using the
physical map of
the east coast,
draw in what you
think would be
logical
boundaries for
the states listed.
http://etc.usf.edu/maps/pages/1000/1029/1029.gif
How similar
were your
boundary
decisions to
the actual
boundaries?