Understanding Geography
What are the hemispheres you can divide the Earth into?
Northern, Southern, Western, Eastern
What are the three regions of North Carolina?
Coastal Plains, Piedmont, and the Mountain Region
What hemispheres is North Carolina located in?
Northern and Western
What is flat land that rises above the surrounding land?
Plateau
What ocean is along the coast of North Carolina?
Atlantic Ocean
What is the line dividing the Earth into Northern and Southern hemispheres?
The equator
How much of NC's land does the Coastal Plain cover?
Almost half
What continent is North Carolina on?
North America
What is a a river or stream that flows into a larger river?
Tributary
Where are NC's barrier islands located?
Off of North Carolina's coast
What is the line dividing the Earth into Eastern and Western hemispheres?
Prime Meridian
Describe the Coastal Plains Region. Use at least 3 sentences.
Largest region, has two parts (inner and outer), lowest elevation, sandhills, wetlands, marshes, swamps, barrier islands etc.
What country is North Carolina in? No abbreviations
United States of America
What is a river and its tributaries that drains water away from the land around it?
A river system
What crop does North Carolina produce more of than any other state?
Sweet Potatoes
What is something's position compared to one or more other places on Earth?
Relative location
Describe the Piedmont Region. Use at least 3 sentences.
Plateau, hills, middle elevation, easiest to cross, where we live.
What region of the U.S. is North Carolina in?
Coordinates Latitude and Longitude.
What is water that falls on Earth's surface as rain, sleet, or snow?
precipitation
What is the special name for the Outer Coastal Plains?
The Tidewater
When writing coordinates which do you write first the latitude or the longitude?
Latitude
Describe the Mountain Region. Use at least three sentences.
Smallest region, last region to be settled, highest elevation, Blue Ridge Mountains.
What region of North Carolina is Durham in?
Piedmont
What is something that people use?
resource
What mountain range separates the Piedmont and the Mountain region?
Blue Ridge Mountains