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NC Regions and 5 Themes of Geography

Total questions: 34

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Tobacco, corn, and sweet potatoes are examples of:

a)

reservoirs

b)

natural resources

c)

hydroelectricity

d)

plantations

2.

What is the tallest mountain in NC?

a)

Kings Mountain

b)

Mount Everest

c)

The Himalayas

d)

Mount Mitchell

3.

Most people today live in which region?

a)

Mountains

b)

Piedmont

c)

Coastal Plains

d)

tidewater

4.

People that make maps are called

a)

historians

b)

cartographers

c)

farmers

d)

geographers

5.

This region is the flatest and has the best fertile soil.

a)

Mountain

b)

Piedmont

c)

Coastal Plains

d)

Raleigh

6.

The movement of people is called _.

a)

migration

b)

industry

c)

natural resources

d)

landforms

7.

If I say I live by the post office that is my

a)

region

b)

absolute location

c)

human-environment interaction

d)

relative location

8.

The Coastal Plains is known for its

a)

furniture

b)

apples

c)

Fraser Fir trees

d)

sea food

9.

Piedmont is known for

a)

furnture, textiles, cities

b)

seafood and tourism

c)

forestry and tourism

d)

apple trees and Fraser Fir trees

10.

The mountains are known for

a)

forestry, tourism, and sea food

b)

forestry and tourism

c)

furniture, textiles, and electronics

d)

shrimp

11.

We live in the region of the US called

a)

Northeast

b)

Southeast

c)

Northwest

d)

Southwest

12.

What explains the colors and sybols on a map?

a)

compass rose

b)

states

c)

legend/key

d)

title

13.

Horizontal lines on a map are called

a)

latitude

b)

longitude

c)

legend

d)

compass rose

14.

The Appalachian and Blue Ridge Mountains are in which region?

a)

Coastal Plains

b)

Piedmont

c)

Mountain

d)

All of them

15.

If you have the exact latitude and longitude points, then that is its

a)

region

b)

absolute location

c)

relative location

d)

movement

16.

Which region is most populated?

a)

Mountain

b)

Piedmont

c)

Coastal Plains

d)

All of them

17.

What borders the Piedmont and Coastal Plain region?

a)

fall line

b)

swamp

c)

blue ridge

d)

Outer Banks

18.

The _ on a map gives you the directions of north, south, east and west.

a)

latitude

b)

longitude

c)

compass rose

d)

key/legend

19.

Which region is the most western part of NC and includes the Appalachian mountain range, also has a smoky appearance?

a)

Mountains

b)

Piedmont

c)

Coastal Plains

d)

Roanoke

20.

Which region is the lowest and flattest and has the best soil, also has two parts; the Tidewater and and Wetlands

a)

Mountains

b)

Piedmont

c)

Coastal Plains

d)

Roanoke

21.

Which region has a flat plateau, a Fall line, a variety of landforms, and most cities

a)

Mountains

b)

Piedmont

c)

Coastal Plains

d)

Roanoke

22.

The region, Location, Place, Movement, and Human Environmental Interaction are all

a)

5 senses

b)

5 themes of geography

c)

5 interesting facts

d)

5 themes of culture

23.

The low hills in the Piedmont region are called

a)

sound

b)

monadnacks

c)

dunes

d)

mountain

24.

Which year was the Buncombe turnpike finshed?

a)

1920

b)

1987

c)

1828

d)

1900

25.

Plains, mountains, and hills are all examples of:

a)

rivers

b)

lakes

c)

landforms

d)

themes of geography

26.

How many states are in the Southeast region?

a)

10

b)

11

c)

12

d)

13

27.

What does geography mean?

a)

when things happened

b)

the Earth and its people

c)

how people make money

d)

government systems

28.

What is human-environment interaction?

a)

the relationship between people and the environment

b)

what physical characteristics define a region

c)

how ideas, people and resources move

d)

where places are in relation to each other

29.

What divides the Earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres?

a)

Prime Meridian

b)

Equator

c)

International Date Line

d)

Compass Rose

30.

Which of the 5 themes of Geography has to do with how people, resources, and ideas move?

a)

place

b)

movement

c)

region

d)

location

31.

Physical characteristics of regions are based on

a)

ideas

b)

landforms

c)

activities

d)

people

32.

The _ splits the Earth into the Northern and Southern hemisperes.

a)

Prime Meridian

b)

Equator

c)

International Date Line

d)

Compass Rose

33.

What characteristic is NOT used to determine a region?

a)

physical characteristics

b)

human characteristics

c)

cultural

characteristics

d)

educational characteristics

34.

Which natural NC resource helped Native Americans invent pottery?

a)

gold

b)

clay

c)

Silver

d)

timber