SC Regions and Facts

Question 1

What was Kudzu originally introduced to do?

Accepted Answer

Prevent soil erosion

Question 2

Which was the most extreme hurricane to hit SC in recent history?

Accepted Answer

Hugo

Question 3

What region consists of low, rolling, sandy hills with an elevation no higher than 500 ft?

Accepted Answer

Sandhills

Question 4

What region has land that becomes a flat, sandy plain and soil is rich due to phosphates left?

Accepted Answer

Outer Coastal Plain

Question 5

What are monadnocks?

Accepted Answer

Free-standing, isolated Mountains

Question 6

How many earthquake zones are in SC?

Accepted Answer

3

Question 7

South Carolina is in what region of the United States

Accepted Answer

Southeast

Question 8

What is the state bird?

Accepted Answer

Carolina Wren

Question 9

What is the highest peak in SC? (3,554 ft)

Accepted Answer

Sassafras Mt

Question 10

Rivers north of the fall line are ________

Accepted Answer

Shallow and fast moving

Question 11

South Carolina is ranked what in size?

Accepted Answer

40th

Question 12

Which of the following regions is the smallest region in SC?

Accepted Answer

Blue Ridge

Question 13

Which of the following is NOT a region found in South Carolina

Accepted Answer

Barrier Islands

Question 14

Why is the soil in the Piedmont region red?

Accepted Answer

High iron content

Question 15

Which of the following is one of the state mottos of SC?

Accepted Answer

"While I breathe, I Hope"

Question 16

South Carolina is roughly the same size as...

Accepted Answer

Scotland

Question 17

What is the state animal of SC?

Accepted Answer

Whitetail deer

Question 18

What is the state tree of SC?

Accepted Answer

Cabbage Palmetto

Question 19

What runs from Augusta to Columbia and then on to Camden and then to Fayetteville, N.C?

Accepted Answer

Fall line

Question 20

Which is the largest area of the Coastal Zone?

Accepted Answer

Barrier Islands

Question 21

Whitewater falls is the highest waterfall ___________

Accepted Answer

east of the Mississippi River

Question 22

Which region is at sea level?

Accepted Answer

Coastal Zone

Question 23

What were poor people who lived in the Sandhills that suffered from diet deficiencies called?

Accepted Answer

Sandlappers

Question 24

The climate along the coast line is...

Accepted Answer

Subtropical

Question 25

What is the state beverage?

Accepted Answer

Milk

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