North Carolina Geography

What is a Geographic Region?

• A large area of land with a common set of features.

• A small area of land with a common set of features.

the three main regions of North Carolina are

• the Coastal Plain

• the Piedmont

• the sand dunes

• the Mountains

Shelby, NC is in the ________ region.

The _________ and _______ are large 

channels of water separating the Outer Banks 

from the mainland.

• Albert Sound

• Albemarle Sound

• Pamlico Sound

• Pamela Sound

• The soil is a black sandy type of soil called ____.

• The Coastal Plain contains two sub-regions: the ___________ and the __________.

• Outer Coastal Plain

• Inner Coastal Plain

• Mid Coastal Plain

• These are a long chain of sandy ____________________ off the coast of North Carolina

• bear islands

• barrier islands

• The Outer Banks is also made up of a series of _____ which is when land juts out into the ocean.

• North Carolina has 3 capes:

• Cape Hatteras

• Cape Romain

• Cape Fear

• Cape Lookout

• 5 large bodies of water separate the Outer Banks from the rest of the coastal Plain. These are called _____.