| A | B |
|---|
| Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway | 1,000-mile-long wate highway from NY to Miami |
| Appalachian Plateau | 300 square mile region in NW Georgia |
| Aquifer | Water-saturated layer of the earth below the surface |
| Artesian Aquifer | deep water-saturated layer where the water is trapped by denser layers of earth |
| Barrier Islands | Chain of sea islands off the GA coast |
| Bedrock | large area of solid rock just below earth's surface |
| Blue Ridge | region in mountainous NE Georgia |
| Climate | average weather conditions over a period of 25 yrs. |
| Coastal Plain | largest region in GA south of the Fall Line |
| Continental Shelf | large, flat underwater ledge from the ocean's shoreline to a major dropoff |
| Fall Line | the inland shoreline of the prehistoric ocean |
| Estuaries | the area around a river's mouth where fresh and salt water mix |
| Elevation | the height of a land formation above sea level |
| Current | the steady flow of a large body of air or water along a particular path |
| Gulf Stream | the current of warm ocean water that flows NE from the Gulf of Mexico |
| Jet Stream | a rapid current of air flowing 30,000 and 40,000 ft. above sea level |
| groundwater | water that lies beneath the earth's survace |
| landforms | natural features of the earth's surface |
| marshes | saltwater or freshwater wetlands |
| precipitation | water that reaches the earth from the atmosphere |
| Piedmont | region in central GA b/w the Fall Line and the mountains |
| Physiographic province | an area defined on the basis of similarities in physical geography |
| Ridge and Valley | region in NW Georgia noted for parallel ridges separated by valleys |
| Weather | conditions in the atmosphere on any given day |
| water table | the upper limit of water-saturated soil |
| trade winds | constant air currents at sea caused by high and low pressure areas |
