Location and Map Skills
This region of the United States is where South Carolina is located.
What is the Southeast?
South Carolina has this many geographic regions.
What is six?
Agriculture has been important to South Carolina’s economy since this time period.
What are colonial times?
This Native American tribe lived in South Carolina before European settlement.
What is the Catawba?
This tree is the state tree of South Carolina.
What is the Palmetto tree?
This ocean borders South Carolina to the east.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This region has the highest elevation and includes Sassafras Mountain.
What is the Blue Ridge?
These two crops were grown by early settlers in South Carolina.
What are rice and indigo?
Enslaved Africans brought knowledge of this type of farming to South Carolina.
What is rice farming?
This type of barbecue sauce is especially associated with South Carolina.
What is mustard-based barbecue?
This type of location uses latitude and longitude
What is absolute location?
This region has sandy soil and poor farming land.
What is the Sand Hills?
This crop became the most important in the 1800s after the invention of the cotton gin.
What is cotton?
This coastal culture preserved African traditions, language, food, and music.
What is Gullah Geechee culture?
Shrimp and grits, barbecue, and boiled peanuts are examples of these.
What are traditional South Carolina foods?
South Carolina is east of this state and south of North Carolina.
What is Georgia?
This region is located below the Blue Ridge and has rolling hills.
What is the Piedmont?
Two major problems that hurt cotton farming were soil exhaustion and this pest.
What is the boll weevil?
English settlers influenced South Carolina’s early government and this.
What is land ownership?
State symbols are important because they represent a state’s history and this.
What is identity?
This is the capital city of South Carolina.
What is Columbia?
Beaches, marshes, and barrier islands are found in this region.
What is the Coastal Zone?
Name one crop grown in South Carolina today.
What are peaches, soybeans, corn, or cotton?
Scots-Irish and German immigrants most influenced this part of South Carolina.
What is the Upstate?
This phrase is South Carolina’s state motto, meaning?
What is “Dum Spiro Spero” or “While I breathe, I hope.”?