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Katie Brickhouse
Sara Selby
Samantha Ringlein
Coastal Plain
Katie Brickhouse
The Coastal Plain
The definition is –A
flat area of land near
the coast.
 It stretches 140 miles
inland from the
Barrier Islands.

3 different Areas of Lowlands

1 area is the Outer Banks
 Another area is the Tidewater
 The last area is the Inner Coastal Plain
The Outer Banks

Made of Marshes and
Swamps
 Has many beaches
 Is near the ocean
Tidewater

15 natural lakes
 The largest lake is lake
Mattamuskeet,it is 5
feet deep.
Inner Coastal Plain

Easy to farm
 A lot of rivers flow
through this area
 It has sand hills that
are great for golf
courses
Piedmont
Sara Selby
Landforms and Basic facts

The piedmont has rolling hills that look like
waves
 Mountains turn to hills over many years
 It has the largest population
 Five of NC’s largest cities are in the
Piedmont’s
Climate

The climate is 1.1
 Daytime high temperatures are often over
90 F (32.2 C) in the summer
Attractions

There are state parks
like Lake James and
the NC Local Zoo
 The Asheboro Zoo is
in the Piedmont. It is
also the largest walk
through zoo.
Other cool facts and
information

Mayberry in Mount Airy is where Andy
Griffin Show was in
 There are several large Universities like
Carolina, State, Duke, Wake Forest
 The state fair is held in Raleigh
 Charlotte is the banking capital of NC
 The Governor’s House is in Raleigh
North Carolina Mountains
Samantha Ringlein
Mountain Rocks

Contain the oldest
rocks in North
Carolina
 Slightly younger rocks
in the eastern
mountains by several
fault zones
Mountain Peaks

the mountains have a
lot of snow
 it has it at the top of
the mountains which
is the peak
Mountain Range



It was in age from over
one billion years to about
one million years
There are rows of
mountains
The largest ranges in N.C
are the Blue Ridge
Mountains and the Great
Smokey Mountains.