Question

2. What is the source of much of the water that runs down through the Piedmont and across the Coastal Plain?

Answer 1

Answer:

Savannah is an alluvial stream, meaning that its waters originate in the mountains and the Piedmont and flow across the Coastal Plain to the ocean.

Explanation:

In prehistoric time, as much as sixty percent of the land that is now Georgia was covered by ocean. When the ocean receded, it left a mostly flat land that we now call the coastal plains. The area where the prehistoric ocean’s shoreline lay - a region about twenty miles across - is called the fall line. It separates Georgia’s Coastal Plain from its Piedmont region. Piedmont land is higher in elevation than that of the Coastal Plain, causing rivers that begin in the Piedmont to to gather speed - or “fall” - as they pass through the Fall Line into the Coastal Plain.