North Carolina Geography 8th Grade Terms

Method of clearing the land for fields and villages used by Native Americans

The central region known as the Piedmont is

Anasazi and Hohokam Southwest desert probably died from drought or some type of food shortage.

A primary source is

The main kind of weather a region has for a long period of time

A group of related people

Strip of warm weather states along the southern United States

The Plains people lived in teepees were nomadic.

Mt. Mitchell

Hand-made objects, such as tools, used by ancient civilizations

Religion is the only thing that makes up culture.

The area that archaeologists believe was once the pathway from Asia to the

The Eastern Woodland people both hunted and farmed to survive

The Plains people who depended on the buffalo were called the

Some of the wood in NC is used to make furniture.

All living and nonliving things that make up a region

North Carolina has coal in the mountains but fault lines make it too dangerous to mine.

Appalachian Mountains

NC Coastal Plain is

Areas where people's ways of life are similar

The Spanish called the adobe villages of Native Americans

The highest sand dune on the Atlantic Coast is

The climate of NC is moderate because we are neither to close or too far from the equator.

Hurricanes

How do geographers determine geographic regions?

Culture consists of

Parts of nature people use in some way

The Native Americans who were master builders of adobe homes in Southwest

What is topography?

The Eastern Woodland people formed an alliance to end warfare-known as

The part of a map that tells you how to identify certain symbols

North Carolina has no natural resources.

A person who studies human culture or the way people lived

A person who studies the remains of early people or artifacts

The Outer Banks

The original people of North Carolina traced their ancestry through

A flat-topped elevation like a plateau

Water is not considered a natural resource of North Carolina.

Stories passed down by word of month from generation to generation

The dividing line between the Coastal Plain and Piedmont, marked by rapids and waterfalls