GeorgiaGeorgia’’ssGeography, Industry,

Transportation,

and Waterways

Produce, Products, and You! Produce, Products, and You!

Did you ever wonder how an apple gets to your ECMS lunchroom? Other Products?

What is a Seasonal item? How do we seem to have certain fruits all year?

Do they all come by the same mode of transportation?

What about the routes they travel?

Farm To MarketFarm To Market

How did Georgia get its Crops to Market?

In the 1700’s…

In the 1800’s…

The Past - Trails to RoadsThe Past - Trails to Roads

Walking Trails

1810 - Old Federal Road – connected Nashville to Athens

Communities linked by gravel

                                          

                                                

Waterways as HighwaysWaterways as Highways

Native Canoes 1700’s - Sail 1800’s - Steam PowerWhat is a Navigable

River? Where are they

in Georgia?

ChattahoocheeChattahoochee The Chattahoochee River

rises high in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia and flows southwesterly toward the Alabama state line. From there the river tumbles for twenty miles over the fall line—the region of transition between the foothills of the Piedmont and the lower and flatter Coastal Plain. Below the fall line in Columbus, the river slows to ramble south toward Florida, where it is known as the Apalachicola.

Savannah RiverSavannah River

Through the building of several locks and dams, and upstream reservoirs like Lake Hartwell, also, the Savannah River was once navigable by freight barges between Augusta, Georgia, (on the Fall Line) and the Atlantic Ocean; maintenance of this channel for commercial shipping ended in 1979 and the one lock below Augusta has been deactivated.[4] The Savannah River is tidal at Savannah, Georgia and downstream. From Savannah downstream, the river broadens into an estuary before flowing into the Atlantic Ocean. The area where the river's estuary meets the ocean is known as "Tybee Roads". The Intracoastal Waterway flows through a section of the Savannah River near the city of Savannah.

Atlantic Intracoastal WaterwayAtlantic Intracoastal Waterway

A man-made channel known as the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway allows watercraft to navigate the marshes separating Georgia's barrier islands from the mainland.

Courtesy of Georgia Department of Economic Development

Modern MethodsModern Methods

Super Highways

Trucks

Trains

Cargo Ships

How does Transportation How does Transportation affect Cost?affect Cost?

Send a Document… A Stamp costs 47¢ (7-10 days) A Three-Day Delivery is $10 Overnight Costs $50 Freight … Sent by Truck? Sent by Plane? Sent by Rail ? Taken by Cargo Ship?

Advantages / DisadvantagesAdvantages / Disadvantages

Fresh Food More Choices Timeliness Factory Efficiency Trade – local, national,

and international Modern Economics

depends on it!

Weather Affects Fuel Cost Pollution Maintenance Cost Accidents Modern Piracy

What Route does it Take?What Route does it Take?

Fruit Lumber Coal Fuel Clothes Ipods Chocolate

Economic ImpactEconomic ImpactGAPorts.com FAQ’s

Economic ImpactEconomic Impact Page 60 in Your Text…

Georgia’s two deep water ports – Savannah and Brunswick

Generate over $1.8 Billion in annual income.

Provide over 81,000 jobs and pay $585 million in taxes.

Over 90 steamship lines serve Georgia Ports.

100 Trucking companies serve metropolitan Georgia.

More than 25,000 Interstate truckers serve the state.

Two major rail lines operate in Georgia

From Georgia, goods are two truckload days from 82%

Of the industrial and 79% of the largest consumer markets.

Map ProjectMap Project

On a Blank Georgia Map…

Create a Key with 4 transportation symbols (1 color each)

Rail (train), Truck (road) , Airplane, Cargo Ship

Show how the routes connect from the Apple Orchard in

Ellijay through Atlanta to the Ports of Savannah and

Brunswick. Some Roads may parallel Rail lines, but not

all go exactly the same way.

See the Transportation Map

Detailed DirectionsDetailed Directions

Directions For Map Skills:

1. Trace, color, label the Chattahoochee River/list one benefit2. Trace, color and label the Savannah River/list one benefit3. Trace, color and label the St. Mary’s River/list one benefit4. Trace, color and label Georgia’s largest deep water ports, Savannah and Brunswick/list 2

benefits/Why are the ports successful?5. Trace and color the fall line/describe 6. Trace, color and label the Barrier Islands7. Trace, color and label Dalton Ga. ( hint northwest corner of Ga. Pg. 602)/list and draw a

picture of what this it’s known for8. Trace, color and label Georgia’s 5 border states9. Put an * mark and label the approximate place where Kaolin can be found and draw one

picture of a product that comes from this natural resource. 10. Anywhere on the Georgia Map, draw a picture of sunshine and list advantages we have

due to climate.