The Three Regions of North Carolina

What is a strip of land that projects into a body of water and often has a lighthouse on it?

• cape

• natural resource

• inlet

• sound

What is something found in nature that can be used by humans?

• sound

• cape

• natural resource

• inlet

What is a narrow area of water between two islands that leads to the land from the sea or a lake?

• cape

• inlet

• natural resource

• sound

What is a wide area of water that connects two large bodies of water?

• natural resources

• cape

• inlet

• sound

Check the 3 distinct LANDFORMS that characterize North Carolina.

• Blue Ridge Mountains

• Appalachian Mountains

• Piedmont Plateau

• Piedmont

• Coastal Plain

What are the three regions of North Carolina? (Check 3)

• Mountain Region

• Hill Region

• Coastal Plain

• sand hills

• Piedmont Region

The Coastal Plain Region is divided into two parts, the Outer Coastal Plain and the Inner Coastal Plain.

• true

• false

Some of the states best farmland is located in the _________.

• Inner Coastal Plain

• Sandhills

• Outer Banks

What is a place where a sea, river, or other body of water becomes shallow?

• fall line

• tributary

• shoal

• plateau

What is a line joining the waterfalls on numerous rivers that marks the point where each river descends from the upland to the lowland?

• fall line

• tributary

• shoal

• plateau