Three Major Regions

Rank in size

Yea! We’re #28!!

NC ranks 3rd in water surface

Borders

Atlantic Ocean

NC has 100 counties

Lincoln County

Fall Line divides Piedmont and Coastal Plain regions

Sounds -separate the Outer Banks from the mainland

The Outer Banks -chains of islands off the coast of NC

Nickname of NC’s coast-“Graveyard of the

Atlantic”

Jockey’s Ridge -Largest natural sand dunes on the East Coast

Appalachian Mountains -Our Mountain Chain

• Divided into two mountain ranges: the Blue Ridge and Great Smokey Mountains

Great Smokey Mountains

Blue Ridge

Mt. Mitchell -highest mountain east of the Mississippi River

Major Rivers of NC

• Mtns.-French Broad, New

• Piedmont-Catawba, Yadkin

• Coastal-Cape Fear, Neuse, Tar-Pamlico