Transcript National Park

The Great
Smoky Mountains
By Lily Gerstein
Location
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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.
• 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.
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.
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.
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.