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.

• 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.