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Vocabulary
Regions
Regions
Regions
Regions
100
Excessive concern for local interests and customs
What is sectionalism?
100
an area of land that is the same in land and habits of the people
What is region?
100
the largest city in the Mountains?
What is Asheville?
100
distinguishes the Tidewater from other regions
What are sounds?
100
flatness and soil
What is characteristics of coastal plain?
200
depositing of clay or silt or gravel
What is sedimentation?
200
Four
What is the number of regions North Carolina has?
200
the number of sounds in the Tidewater
What is five?
200
most natural lakes are found here
What is the Tidewater?
200
early settlers had to depend on these to get through the mountains
What is gaps?
300
cluster of housing on the edge of town owned by factories
What is mill villages?
300
The four regions of North Carolina
What is Tidewater, Coastal Plain, Piedmont, and Mountains?
300
Christmas trees
What is the new and growing industry of the Mountains?
300
known for dark shadows during thunderstorms
What is Black Mountains?
300
the eastern boundary of the Appalachian Mountains?
What is Blue Ridge?
400
geological condition where a point of land stands out because all the land around it eroded
What is monadnocks?
400
extends along the Atlantic Ocean
What is the Tidewater?
400
the sandhills been used for
What are golf courses and military base?
400
tall grass mixes wtih scattered long leaf and other types of pine
What is savanna?
400
the center for stock car racing
What is Charlotte?
500
streams on the east run to Atlantic and streams on the west run to the Mississippi
What is Continental Divide?
500
recognizable by its red clay
What is the Piedmont?
500
a large portion of the Tidewater is made up of
What is wetlands?
500
divides north carolina into east and west
What is fall line?
500
Monadnocks
What is the Piedmont's most distinctive natural landmark?