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newsresearch.blogspot.com http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1102/760288791_d468046331.jpg __**Appalachia **__

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**this is michaela, megan, christine, & kayla's page. Welcome. Our subject is Setting- a snapshot of Applachia during the late**
**70's.**

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachia

 **__Appalachia__** is a term used to describe a region in the [|eastern] [|United States] that stretches from southern [|New York] state to northern [|Alabama], [|Mississippi] , and [|Georgia]. Although part of the [|Appalachian Mountains] extend through [|New England] and into [|Canada] , this area is not included in the accepted geographical definition of Appalachia. Over twenty million people live in Appalachia, an area roughly the size of the [|United Kingdom], covering mostly mountainous, often isolated areas from the border of [|Mississippi] and [|Alabama] in the south to [|Pennsylvania] and [|New York] in the north. Appalachia also includes parts of the states of [|Georgia], [|South Carolina] , [|North Carolina] , [|Tennessee] , [|Virginia] , [|Kentucky] , [|Ohio] , [|Maryland] , and the entire state of [|West Virginia]. The region contains few intermediate-sized cities, and only two large [|metropolitan areas] are located entirely within the region- [|Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania], and [|Knoxville, Tennessee]. (However, the expansive region served by the [|Appalachian Regional Commission] incorporates some additional urban areas, including [|Birmingham, Alabama], the northern part of the [|Atlanta metropolitan area] , western fringes of the [|Charlotte] area, western fringes of the [|Piedmont Triad] area, western fringes of the [|Washington metropolitan area] and the eastern fringes of the [|Nashville metropolitan area] .) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachia

The wildlife you might encounter in the Appalachian Mountains includes a wide variety of mammals (moose, white-tailed deer, black bears, beaver, chipmunks, rabbits, squirrels, foxes, racoons, opossums, skunks, groundhogs, porcupines, bats, weasels, shrews, minks), birds (hawks, woodpeckers, warblers, thrushes, wrens, nuthatches, flycatchers, sapsuckers, grouses), and reptiles and amphibians (frogs, salamanders, turtles, rattlesnakes, copperheads).

Geology and History:
The Appalachians were formed during a series of collisions and separations of tectonic plates that began 300 million years ago and continued through the Paleozoic and Mesozoic Eras. When the Appalachians were still forming, the continents were in different locations than they are today and North America and Europe had collided. The Appalachians were once an extension of the Caledonian mountain chain, a mountain chain that is today in Scotland and Scandinavia.Since their formation, the Appalachians have undergone extensive erosion. The Appalachians are a geologically complex range of mountains that are a mosaic of folded and uplifted plateaus, parallel ridges and valleys, metamorphosed sediments and volcanic rock layers.

http://animals.about.com/od/environmenthabitat/p/appalachian.htm



First appalachin trail was just a simply idea. It was completed in 1937. This trail is the longest trail it is 2175 miles long. The lowest elevation is 124feet and the highest elevation is 6625 feet. Some fun facts are that 9000 people have walked on this trail and there is 5 million footsteps on this trail.

http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/north-carolina/appalachian-trail-hike.php