Where is North Carolina?
Region
The height of the land.
Elevation
Low-lying areas where the water level is always near or above the surface of the land.
Wetlands
Something found in nature that people can use.
Natural Resource
This ocean is located along the coast of North Carolina.
The Atlantic Ocean
Half of a sphere or a round object, such as Earth.
Hemisphere
Low, narrow islands between the ocean and the coastline of a mainland.
Barrier Islands
A place along which rivers drop from higher to lower ground.
Fall Line
Something people make or grow; usually to sell.
Product
What NC region do we live in?
Piedmont
The imaginary line that separates the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
Equator
A lowland that lies along an ocean.
Coastal Plain
Floodplain
A place where animals find food and shelter
Habitat
What mountain range separates the Piedmont and the Mountain region?
The Blue Ridge Mountains
The set of imaginary lines running east to west around the Earth, also called parallels.
Lines of Latitude
The rising and falling of the oceans and the waters connected to them.
Tides
A body of water that lies between a mainland and an island
Sound
Anything that makes a natural resource dirty or unsafe to use.
Pollution
What crop does North Carolina produce more of that any other state?
Sweet Potatoes
The starting place to lines of longitude, splits the Earth into its east and west hemispheres.
Prime Meridian
A land that rises above the surrounding land
Plateau
A river or stream that flows into a larger river.
Tributary
A place where stone is cut or blasted out of the ground
Quarry
True or False: The Coastal Plain covers almost half of North Carolina.
True!