UNIT 1 TEST STUDY GUIDE: Geography and Prehistoric Georgia
Answer all questions on a separate sheet, using complete sentences.
1. Know all vocabulary from Chapter 1 (sections 1, 2, & 3) and Chapter 8 (Section 1).
2. Contrast relative and absolute location.
3. What is the purpose of latitude and longitude on a map or globe?
4. What does latitude measure? What is the starting point for measuring latitude?
5. What does longitude measure? What is the starting point for measuring longitude?
6. Identify Georgia’s location:
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What hemispheres do we live in (name both)?
What continent do we live on?
What nation do we live in?
What regions within the U.S. are we in (name at least 3)?
7. What are the characteristics of the Coastal Plain (be thorough)?
8. What are the characteristics of the Piedmont (be thorough)?
9. What are the characteristics of the Blue Ridge (be thorough)?
10. What are the characteristics of the Appalachian Plateau (be thorough)?
11. What are the characteristics of the Valley & Ridge (be thorough)?
12. What are the Barrier Islands? Where are they? Why are they important?
13. What is the Okefenokee Swamp? Name 3 important facts about it.
14. What is the fall line? How did it form?
15. Name 4 important uses for Georgia rivers.
16. Name the three major rivers that border Georgia.
17. What are wetlands? Why are they important?
18. What is Brasstown Bald? Where is it in Georgia?
19. What is the difference between weather and climate?
20. Name 4 types of weather phenomena that occur in Georgia.
21. Name 4 ways climate has affected Georgia’s development.
22. Define prehistory/prehistoric.
23. What is archaeology? Why is it important to learning about past cultures?
24. Contrast artifact and ecofact.
25. Where did the first North Americans come from, how did they get here, and why did they
come here?
26. How did Native Americans pass on their knowledge and religion before written records?
27. How do we know many things about prehistoric people if we don’t have written records?
28. Explain this sentence: Georgia’s prehistory ended long after it ended in other places.
29. What is context? Explain why it is important to archaeologists.
30. How did the beginning of farming change the lives of prehistoric Native Americans?
31. What is an effigy mound? Give an example in Georgia.
32. Name two major Mississippian mound sites in Georgia.
33. Which Indian tradition encountered Hernando de Soto? In what year did this happen
(this is the year the stopped being prehistoric)?
34. INDIAN TRADITIONS: For each tradition, give the dates, important
inventions/artifacts/weapons, food, information on their shelters/villages, and
important sites in GA:
(A)Paleo
(B)Archaic
(C)Woodland
(D)Mississippian
DISCUSSION: Answer the following questions in paragraph form on your own paper. Be
sure to be detailed and use correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
1. Explain the importance of each of the following physical features in Georgia:
Okefenokee Swamp, barrier islands, wetlands, rivers, the fall line, and Brasstown Bald.
2. Trace the development of food and shelter through all four prehistoric Indian traditions
(be sure to go in chronological order). Be very specific with each tradition, and include
all details you know. For food, be sure to include both what they ate and how they
acquired food. For shelter, describe both the physical shelters they lived in and any
details about their settlements.