SC Regions & Facts Preassessment

South Carolina is in what region of the United States?

• southwest

• west

• northeast

• southeast

Which of the following is NOT a region found in South Carolina?

• Blue Ridge

• Barrier Island

• Sandhills

• Coastal Zone

Which of the following is the smallest region in SC?

• Sandhills

• Piedmont

• Blue Ridge

• France

Whitewater Falls is the highest waterfall ________________.

• west of the Mississippi River

• south of the Mason Dixon Line

• east of the Mississippi River

• in the entire world

What are monadnocks?

• free-standing, isolated mountains

• island strands

• river deltas

• really large holes in the ground

Why is the soil in the Piedmont region red?

• because someone dumped a lot of red dye in it

• high water level

• high calcium levels

• high iron content

Poor people who lived in the Sandhills that once suffered from dietary deficiencies were called what?

• Yankees

• Po Boys

• Sandlappers

• Low Folk

What runs from Augusta to Columbia and then on to Camden and up to Fayetteville, NC?

• a track team

• Augusta River

• Blue Ridge Mountains

• Fall Line

How were the Carolina Bays created?

• wind

• meteors

• aliens

• man made

Which is the largest area in the Coastal Zone?

• Santee Delta

• Barrier Islands

• Grand Strand

• Savannah River