1. Region
The basic unit of study in geography that has certain unifying characteristics such as climate, language, and history

2. Barrier Islands
The outlying crops of land along North Carolina’s coast

3. Fall Line
The place where the Piedmont land drops to the lower land of the Coastal Plain

4. Human Feature
Changes made by people to land

5. Physical Feature
Features that are unique to North Carolina’s regions such as coastal marshes, rolling hills, farms, and mountains

6. Piedmont
An area of rolling hills lying between the Atlantic Coastal Plain and Appalachian Mountains

7. Coastal Plains
Easternmost and largest region in North Carolina

8. Mountains
The region that makes up the western fifth of North Carolina that is part of the Southern Appalachian mountain range

9. Tidewater
Encompasses the area of low-lying land nearest to the coast

10. Primary Source
Something made or written by someone who was there at the time; an original record

11. Secondary Source
Something written or said by someone who studied an event