Transcript National Park

The Great Smokey Mountions
By Raylin Alusik
Location
• Region-Southeast
• State-Tennessee
• Capital-Nashville
• Longitude-86.2272 North
• Latitude-35.8490 West
Landforms
Clingmans Dome
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The Location is in the heart of the park
The Height is 6,642 feet
On Appalachian Trail
Highest point in the park
Mount Guyot
• Located in the north of park
• 6,621 feet high
• On Appalachian trail
Rich Mount
• Located in the north of park
• 3,686 feet high
Culture
Two Different groups of people called the
Great Smokey Mountains home but had
opposing ideas.
* Cherokee Indians
– were the first people of the mountains
– Lived 1212
– 800 years
– forced to leave the land
1800 Early settlers came into the area in the Told
the Cherokee to walk to Oklahoma
Waterways
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Rainbow Falls-Located in the North of the National Park.
80 feet high
Laurel Falls-Also located in the north of the park.
80 feet high
Abraham Falls-Located in the north of the park.
20 feet high
Rocks and Minerals
• Most of the rocks in the great smoky mountains National park are
sedimentary and were by accumulations of clay ,silt, sand, gravel
and minor amounts of calcium carbide in flat-lying layers.
• Gold-most rocks in the great smoky mount ions are sedimentary
• Clay-They where formed out of clay, self, sand, gravel and minor
amounts of calcium and carbonate.
• Copper- the oldest rocks are 800-545 years old.