2. Vocabulary
Region: A specific area where the lay of the land and the habits
of the people are much the same.
Climate: A characteristic of a region used to describe its long-
term atmospheric conditions.
Tidewater Region: A North Carolina region that has sandy soil,
barrier islands, sounds, and its main economy is dependent on
tourism and fishing.
Coastal Plain Region: A North Carolina region that has flat
fertile soil, sandhills, and its main economy dependent on
military bases, golfing, and agriculture.
Piedmont Region: A North Carolina region that has clay soil,
pine tree forests, hilly land, the fall line, and its main economy
dependent on technology, banking, and education.
3. Vocabulary
Mountain Region: A North Carolina region that has
rocky soil, the Appalachian Mountain Range, Blue
Ridge Mountains, Smoky Mountains and its main
economy dependent on tourism and the Christmas
tree industry.
Gulf Stream: The ocean current that runs northward
along the North Carolina coast; it carries warm water
from the Gulf of Mexico across the Atlantic Ocean.
Sandhills: Rolling sand ridges where little grows.
Sound: An inland body of mixed water.
8. Tidewater Region
Borders Atlantic Ocean
Barrier Islands-Long chain of islands off the coast of
NC include the most famous, Outer Banks.
The barrier islands are ever shifting and vary in size
due to tides and wind patterns.
9. Among the barrier islands are some famous Capes
in North Carolina
Cape-a pointed piece of land
that sticks out into a sea, ocean
lake, or river.
North Carolina Capes:
Cape Fear and Cape Hatteras
10. A sound is a wide inlet of the Climate of the Tidewater
sea or ocean that is parallel Region:
to the coastline; it often
separates a coastline from a Mild Winters and Moderate
nearby island and is usually Summers make the climate
a mixture of salt and fresh of this area welcoming to
water visitors.
Major Sounds in North
Carolina:
Currituck Sound, Albemarle
Sound, Pamlico Sound, Core
Sound and Bogue Sound.
The largest and deepest
sound is the Pamlico Sound
12. Coastal Plain Region
Has some of the best farmland in NC due to rich
sandy soil.
Sandhills, an area of flat rolling hills part of Coastal
Plain. Poorest soil in the state.
Pinehurst is a popular part of the Sandhills due to
the golf courses, which is important industry in
Sandhills.
14. Piedmont Region
Known for the red clay.
Portion of NC that we live in
Fall Line separates the Piedmont from the Coastal Plain
Distinct landform in Piedmont is the monadnocks.
Monadnocks- a point of land that stands out because all
the land around it has been eroded around it.
Pilot Mountain is the most famous of these
17. Mountains
Mountain Region is the region furthest west in NC.
Blue Ridge Mountains form the eastern boundary of
the Appalachian Mountains.
Appalachian Mountains contain Mt.Mitchell, which is
the tallest Mountain east of the Rocky Mountains.
Great Smoky Mountains another famous mountain
range in NC
18. North Carolina
Neuse River Atlantic Ocean New Bern Greensboro
Cape Fear River Pamlico Sound Wilmington
Tar River Albemarle Sound Raleigh
