Outer Coastal Plain
Inner Coastal Plain
Natural Resources
100

What is the name of the string of barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina?

Answer: What are the Outer Banks?

100

What is the highest elevation range of the Sandhills in the Inner Coastal Plain?

Answer: What is about 900 to 1,000 feet above sea level?

100

What was once a vast band of forests in the Coastal Plain?

Answer: What are longleaf pine forests?

200

Which area of the Outer Coastal Plain is known for its dangerous underwater sandbars?

Answer: What are the capes?

200

What type of soil is found in the Inner Coastal Plain that makes it good for farming?

Answer: What is rich, sandy soil?

200

Name one of the important crops grown in the northern Coastal Plain.

Answer: What are peanuts or potatoes?

300

What is Cape Hatteras famously known as?

Answer: What is the Graveyard of the Atlantic?

300

Which fruit is the Inner Coastal Plain known for growing?

Answer: What are peaches?

300

What are two types of livestock operations that provide jobs in the Coastal Plain?

Answer: What are poultry and pork producers?

400

How long do the Outer Banks stretch along the coast?

Answer: What is more than 175 miles?

400

What is the drier area of the Coastal Plain called?

Answer: What is the Inner Coastal Plain?

400

What is the largest wetland area in North Carolina?

Answer: What is the Great Dismal Swamp?

500

Name one of the seven sounds located in the Tidewater region.

Answer: What are Pamlico, Albemarle, Currituck, Croatan, Roanoke, Core, or Bogue Sounds?

500

Before its decline, which crop was significant in eastern North Carolina?

Answer: What is tobacco?

500

What type of plant grows naturally only in the Tidewater region?

Answer: What is the Venus Flytrap?

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