Geography Terms

An imaginary line that runs from Richmond County to Halifax County through places on rivers where falls were first found

• Inlet

• Tidewater

• Continental Shelf

• Fall Line

Pertaining to a city

• Urban

• Rural

• Piedmont

• Suburbs

Height above sea level

• Longitude

• Latitude

• Elevation

• Gravitational pull

Part of the barrier islands (Outer Banks) that juts out into the ocean

• Continental Shelf

• Cape

• Shoals

• Tidewater

An underwater plain extending out from a continent

• Continental Shelf

• Cape

• Shoal

• Inlet

A long period of no rainfall

• Evaporation

• Erosion

• Drought

• Solstice

A measure of the distance north or south of the Equator

• Longitude

• Latitude

• Elevation

• Parsec

A series of barrier islands bordering the ocean along the coast of the Tidewater

• Outer Banks

• The Philippines

• Hawaii

• Rhode Islands

Places where the ocean flows through the Outer Banks towards the mainland

• Sounds

• Inlets

• Shoals

• Capes

The part of North Carolina that stretches from the Tidewater to the Fall Line

• Piedmont

• Mountains

• Inner Coastal Plain

• Outer Coastal Plain