the great smoky mountains
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The Great Smoky Mountains. By Lily Gerstein. Location. Region-Southeast States-Tennessee and North Carolina Capitals-Nashville and Raleigh Longitude-86.227 °W and 79.4508°W Latitude-35.8490 °N and 45.08°W. Landforms. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is made up of mountains. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The Great Smoky Mountains
By Lily Gerstein
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Location
• Region-Southeast
• States-Tennessee and North Carolina
• Capitals-Nashville and Raleigh
• Longitude-86.227°W and 79.4508°W
• Latitude-35.8490°N and 45.08°W
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Landforms
• The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is made up of mountains.
• Over millions of years ago, erosion changed the Smoky’s.
• Today the highest peaks in the Smoky Mountains are less than 7,000 feet and 2,1000 meters above sea.
• The Smoky Mountains formed when plates below the sedimentary rocks met, also plates are large sheet soft rocks that makes up the earth’s crust.
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Culture
• The Cherokee Indians began living in The Great Smoky Mountains in 1213.
• After the Cherokee Indians came to the Smoky Mountains the settlers came in the 1800’s.
• 9.4 million people come to visit the park this year.
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Waterways
• The Grotto Falls - due to strong currents and an undertow, swimming in the pool at base of the falls is extremely dangerous.
• The Great Smoky Mountains National Park has about 2,115 miles of streams within it boundaries and protects one of last wild trout habits in the Eastern United States.
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Rocks and Minerals• Wind and rain have worn away the
mountain tops, also streams washed soil down mountain slops protects one of the last wild trout habitats in the
• Eastern United states.
• The Great Smoky Mountains are mostly made out of sedimentary rocks.