Lake Hartwell

I choose to blog about Lake Hartwell, because it's the lake I always went to growing up. My Mawmaw owns land with two lake lots that my family uses. Lake Hartwell is located on the Georgia, South Carolina border. It was created in the 1950's as a flood prevention for the Savanna River. The Lake is made up of 56, 000 acres, with 962 miles of shoreline. The three rivers that provide in flow are Savannah, Tugaloo, and Seneca Rivers. 

This is a picture of Lake Hartwell.

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The Fall Line

The fall line is the area where the Piedmont land meets the Atlantic Coastal Plains. Thousands of years ago, this area was where the ocean meet the shore. Rivers that cross at the Fall Line have rapids and waterfalls at this land mark. The land was important for people to settle here for many reasons. For one, it was the farthest inland you can go via water travel, making it a prime location for trading. Also, the water falls and rapids allow us to create an ample amount of water power. The rivers and large volume of trading allowed large amounts of settlements to occur in places such as Macon, Columbus, and Augusta. When standing on the Great temple mound in the Ocmulgee National Park, you can see the difference of land because of the Fall Line. The land north of Macon has rolling hills; while the land south of Macon is very flat. 

 This is a picture of the Ocmulgee River Walk. This is the main river that passes through Macon, and over the Fall Line. 

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Information about Macon

 

Blood Sugar

What’s the response to your body when you eat sugar?

When a person eats food, the body breaks the food down into glucose (sugar). This is important because the cells use the sugar as energy to fuel your body throughout the day. Once the sugar is broken down Insulin, which the pancreas secretes, transports the sugar from the blood stream into cells throughout your body. Reaching this point of homeostasis is important, because without the balance your body can be contaminated with too much, or not enough sugar, causing multiple problems to occur. This process on restoring your body back to a normal blood sugar level can be seen in the graph below.

This information is from the day in class that Dr. Rood recorded his blood sugar during the class period. He took his blood sugar at the beginning of class, then ate a candy bar and drank a sprite. Every 5 min he recorded his blood sugar. You can see how his blood sugar increases to a certain point, then his body brings it back down to it's regular state. 

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