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WHAT 2 MOUNTAIN RANGES ARE OUR MOUNTAINS PART OF?

BLUE RIDGE AND APPALACIAN

WHAT 3 THINGS HAVE ERODED OUR MOUNTAINS?

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  • Ice
  • Rain
  • Wind

ERODING MOUNTAINS ARE NOT POINTY.

WHAT SHAPE ARE ERODED MOUNTAINS?

ROUNDED

TALLEST MOUNTAIN IN THE BLUE RIDGE?

SASSAFRAS

WHAT COVERS THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS?

HARDWOOD FOREST

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  • Piedmont means foot of the mountain

LANDFORMS

  • Rolling hills
  • Monadnocks
  • Valleys

EROSION HAS LEFT US WITH RED CLAY SOIL.

RED CLAY IS NOT GOOD FOR FARMING SO WHAT DO WE GROW?

PEACHES

What 2 things did early textile mills use to produce HYDROELECTRICITY?

WATERFALLS AND RIVERS

What slows down waves and protects the coast from erosion? It protects the coast from washing away.

BARRIER ISLANDS

SWAMP

FLOODED FOREST

HARBOR

PLACES WHERE SHIPS COME IN

SALT MARSH

FLOODED GRASSLAND (1700 GREW RICE)

SAND DUNES

LARHE PILES OF SAND

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  • Tourist
  • Travels for pleasure
  • Tourism
  • Business of making money from the tourism

COASTAL ZONE

10 MILE BAND OF LAND THAT STRETCHES FROM THE ATLANTIC OCEAN INLAND

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LARGEST HARBOR IN SC?

CHARLESTON HARBOR

2 THINGS GROW WELL IN COASTAL PLAIN

  • Soybeans
  • Cotton

FALL LINE ZONE

CUTS THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF SAND HILLS

RAPIDS

  • At the fall line
  • Rivers move more swiftly
  • Water splashes and swirls over rocks

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FOSSILS

LEFTOVER FROM THE OCEAN IN THE SAND HILLS

INNER COASTAL PLAIN IS LIKE THE OUTER COASTAL PLAIN

OCEAN USED TO COVER MOST OF OUR STATE

SANDY SOIL

NOT GOOD FOR FARMING

LUMBER = TIMBER

FOUND IN COASTAL PLAINS BECAUSE OF LOTS OF TREES AND FERTILE SOIL