1. The Geography of North Carolina
NC SCOS Goal 1.01

2. North Carolina in the United States
Tennessee
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia

3. Geographic Region
A large area of land with a common set of features

4. Regions of North Carolina
Mountain Region
Coastal Plains
Piedmont Region
Inner Coastal
Plains
Tidewater

5. Tidewater Sub-Region
The low-lying eastern part of North Carolina’s Coastal Plain that extends 20 to 30 miles inland from the Atlantic ocean.
The sounds and rivers in the Tidewater Sub-region are affected by the ocean tides. How?

6. Intracoastal Waterway
a 3,000-mile inland waterway that runs along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States from Maine to Texas.
Built in 1919, most of the ICW has a required depth
of 12 feet.

7. Piedmont
The hilly, region between the Coastal Plain and the Appalachian Mountains

8. Appalachian Mountain Chain
A chain of mountains that run from Georgia to Quebec along the east coast of North America.

9. The Blue Ridge Mountains
A mountain range that runs on the Eastern edge of the Appalachian mountain chain from Georgia to Pennsylvania.
The Great Smoky Mountains are a small range within
the larger Blue Ridge Mountain Range.

10. The Continental Divide
An imaginary line in a continent’s mountain chain that determines which direction rivers will flow.

11. The Continental Divide
Tennessee
North Carolina

12. Fall line
An imaginary line that separates the piedmont and the coastal plains regions of North Carolina, it’s the place on rivers where falls are first found.

13. The Fall Line Ocean What region does this represent?

14. How did the Fall Line influence early North Carolina colonial travel?

15. Where do you think the first settlers that came to North Carolina made their homes?

16. Answer #17 on your review sheet about the fall line
Answer #17 on your review sheet about the fall line. Use the word “prevented” in your answer.

17. Outer Banks
A long chain of sandbars and barrier islands on the coast of North Carolina

18. Cape parts of the coastline that jut out into the ocean Cape Hatteras
Cape Lookout
Cape Fear

19. Inlet
places where the ocean flows through the outer banks to the sounds
Oregon Inlet
Hatteras Inlet
Ocracoke Inlet
Beaufort Inlet

20. Sound shallow bodies of water between the outer banks and the mainland
Currituck
Sound
Albemarle
Sound
Pamlico
Sound
Core Sound
Bogue Sound
Donovan Goal

21. Continental Shelf
an underwater plain extending out from a continent

22. Shoal shallow water along the continental shelf
The Diamond Shoals at Cape Hatteras
and the Frying Pan Shoals at Cape Fear

24. What would be dangerous about shoals in the ocean?
What is the nickname of North Carolina’s coast?
The Graveyard
of the Atlantic

25. Sand Dunes (Sandbanks)
A large deposit of sand forming a mound, ridge or hillside.
The largest sand dune on
The Atlantic Coast is
Jockey’s Ridge at Nags
Head and is approximately
100 ft. high.
Picture of Jockey’s
Ridge

26. current a flow of water within a larger body of water.
The warm Gulf Stream
current flows north and the
cold Labrador current flows
south, they meet off the coast of North Carolina at Cape Hatteras.

27. Elevation height above sea level At 6,684 feet in elevation,
Mt. Mitchell is the highest
point in the United States,
east of the Mississippi
River.

28. Urban = city

29. Rural = Countryside, outside of the city

30. North Carolina Rivers Hiwassee River Chowan New Tar/Pamlico River
Yadkin River
Roanoke River
French Broad
River
Catawba
River
Pee Dee
River
Little
Tennessee
River
Neuse
River
Cape Fear
River

31. North Carolina Lakes Lake Mattamuskeet Lake Gaston Lake Norman
Phelps Lake
High Rock Lake
Lake Waccamaw

32. Continental Divide
Continental
Shelf
Fall line
Shoal
Mountains
Ocean

33. North Carolina Cities Winston-Salem Raleigh Asheville Kannapolis
Charlotte
Fayetteville
Morehead
City
Wilmington

34. North Carolina Cities (continued)
Greensboro
Edenton
Durham
Hickory
Boone
Gastonia
Bath
New Bern

35. Other important Geographic features of North Carolina
Great Dismal Swamp
Mt. Mitchell
Roanoke
Island