1. South Carolina Geography

2. What is the coastal zone?
185 miles long and 10 miles wide
Atlantic Coast
Myrtle Beach, Georgetown, Charleston, and Beaufort
3 sections
1. Grand Strand
NC border to Winyah Bay
sandy
2. Santee Delta
Winyah Bay to Bull's Bay
largest delta
3. Barrier Islands
Bull's Bay to Savannah River
Protect coast

4. What is the Outer Coastal Plain?
30-50 miles wide
lower pine belt
Swamps
Savannahs
tidal rivers

5. Assignment:
Identify each section of the coastal zone on the map. Use a color for each section and create a key. Identify each of the large cities in the coastal zone.

7. What is the Inner Coastal Plain?
ft. above sea level
Upper pine belt
Forests w/ tall trees
National Parks
Carolina Bays
(oval depressions
look like swamp
cause unknown)

8. What are the Sandhills?
fall zone (transition from flat to hills and divides the state into the Lowcountry and the Backcountry aka Up Country)
Columbia to Camden
Barren
poor for farming
Sandlappers- ate sand for minerals

10. Assignments:
People from South Carolina are still called Sandlappers. How did they get that nickname? Should South Carolinians be proud of this name? Write a paragraph defending your side. (5 sentences)
List 10 words that you would use to describe people from South Carolina.

11. What is the Piedmont? 1/3 of state Greenville-Spartanburg area
fast flowing rivers
textile factories

12. What is the Blue Ridge? 500 square miles (smallest)
Northwest tip of SC
Sassafras Mountain
Whitewater Falls

13. Can you identify the geographic region?

14. Assignments
1. Complete labeling the map. Add all of the geographic regions.
  2. If you could choose, in which geographical region of South Carolina would you live? (5 sentence paragraph with at least 3 details)

16. What are SC’s 3 river systems?
Pee Dee River System
1. north coast
2. no lakes
Santee River System
1. middle of coast
2. largest system
Savannah River System
1. On Georgia border
2. several rivers and lakes

17. Assignment:
Identify each river system on the map. Use a color for each system and create a key.

19. Study Guide SC Geography
Name, label, and identify the main characteristics of the 6 landform regions of SC. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
7. Define fall zone.
8. The fall zone divides the state into the ____________________ and the ___________________.
Name label and identify the main characteristics of the 3 river systems of SC. 9.
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20. KOOSH!!!