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Unit 1 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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geographic region | large area of land with a common set of features |
Outer Banks | long chain of sandbars and barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina |
Coastal Plain | broad, flat region in North Carolina that stretches 100 to 150 miles inland from the ocean |
Tidewater | low-lying eastern part of North Carolina's Coastal Plain |
Piedmont | hilly region between the Coastal Plain and the Appalachian Mountains |
climate | the main kind of weather that a region experiences over an extended period |
Sun Belt | strip of warm-weather states that runs across the southern United States |
natural resource | any part of nature that people use in some way |
sandbank | a large deposit of sand forming a mound, ridge, or hillside |
vicinity | the surrounding area |