2. South Carolina Regions Courtesy of Mrs. Chapman and Mrs. Larkin

3. What is a Region? Geographers study regions to learn about different places. Each region has features that make it different from others. Landforms Climate Location

4. Blue Ridge Piedmont Sandhills Capital Columbia Inner Coastal Plain Outer Coastal Plain Coastal Zone

5. Choose a category. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin.

6. Click here for Final Jeopardy

7. Blue Ridge Piedmont Outer Coastal Coastal Zone Find that Region 10 Points10 Points10 Points10 Points 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points Sandhills Inner Coastal

8. What is the smallest region?

9. Blue Ridge

10. What landform is found in the Blue Ridge?

11. mountains

12. What region would I be in if I were mountain climbing, hiking and fishing?

13. Blue Ridge

14. What landforms does the Piedmont have?

15. hills and valleys

16. What region is not a good farming region?

17. Piedmont

18. Where is the soil sandy?

19. Sandhills

20. What is a good farming region?

21. Inner Coastal Plain

22. What region has the fall line in it?

23. Sandhills

24. What region is our capital, Columbia in?

25. Sandhills

26. What is the fall line?

27. Where the elevation changes from high to low and rivers rush over it creating rapids

28. What region is near the coast?

29. Outer Coastal Plain

30. What region is on the coast?

31. Coastal Zone

32. In what region would I find beaches and marshes?

33. Coastal Zone

34. In what region would I find swamps?

35. Outer Coastal Plain

36. In what region is Charleston located?

37. Coastal Zone

38. Locate the Blue Ridge region on the map!

39. Good Job!

40. Locate the Piedmont region on the map!

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42. Locate the Sandhills region on the map!

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44. Locate the Inner and Outer Coastal Plains on the map!

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46. Locate the Coastal Zone on the map!

47. Good Job!

48. Make your wager

49. South Carolina is divided into how many regions?

50. Final student response

51. ViewView from Sassafras Mountain top Lat/Lon: 35.06470°N / 82.7775°W35.06470°N / 82.7775°W Highest Point in South Carolina is Sassafras Mountain at 3533 feet.

52. PIEDMONT Means foot of the mountain. Encompasses nearly 1/3 rd of the state. Rapidly flowing creeks and rivers. Rolling hills and valleys with moderate slopes. Soil is red and yellow clay

53. SANDHILLS Extends along the fall line. Contains the red hills. Mostly sandy soil Long leaf pine and scrubby oaks Fruits and vegetables are grown here.

54. INNER COASTAL PLAIN Fertile soil Location of cotton plantations Carolina Bays - oval depressions in swamps Because of sediment that settled in the ocean millions of years ago over the Coastal Plains, there is a lot of Sedimentary Rock in this area.

55. OUTER COASTAL PLAIN Rivers meander through broad flood plains Location of rice and indigo plantations Lakes and swamps. Movie on Inner and Outer coastal plains

56. COASTAL ZONE It borders the Atlantic Ocean. It has sand dunes. Marshlands, inlets, bays, barrier islands. It has Palmetto and Palm trees. It has beaches. It is often battered by hurricanes.

57. Coastal Plain

58. Inner Coastal

59. Outer Coastal

60. Sandhills

61. Piedmont

62. Blue Ridge

63. GREAT JOB! You have an understanding of the 6 regions of South Carolina.