1. 200 300 400 500 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 Vocabulary Soil/Water Resources Mineral Resources Vegetation/ Animal Habitat 100

2. Our region located in the center of the state with rolling hills is the ____________.

3. Piedmont

4. What is a habitat?

5. A habitat is a place where animals find food and shelter.

6. What is something found in nature that people can use called?

7. Natural Resources

8. Anything that makes a natural resource dirty or unsafe to use is called ____________.

9. Pollution

10. What region would you find in the western part of our state?

11. Mountain Region

12. What do we call the region located nearest the ocean?

13. The Coastal Plain

14. Our state gemstone is the _________________________

15. emerald

16. Our center for state government is _____

17. Raleigh

18. Our state capital is found in the _________________ region.

19. Piedmont

20. __________ resources include things we find in nature like trees, stone, and animals.

21. Natural

22. ___________ used to be the state’s most important crop, but over time, it has become less important because it is dangerous for our health.

23. Tobacco

24. North Carolina leads the country in the production of which vegetable crop?

25. Sweet Potatoes

26. North Carolina is located in the _____________ US.

27. Southeastern

28. Describe the soil in the Mountain Region of our state.

29. The soil in the Mountain Region has a grey-brown color and contains a lot of rock.

30. We eat a great deal of fish in this state. What region would you find the most of it?

31. Coastal Plain

32. What are two important uses for rocks in our state?

33. Gravel for roads and stone for building

34. The majority of the 300 kinds of rocks and minerals that our state has are found where in N.C.?

35. Western part of the state

36. What is North Carolina’s official stone and what is something it could be used for to help the economy?

37. The official state stone is granite, and it can be used for countertops. This brings money to the Mountain Region.

38. Name two things that red clay from the Piedmont Region is used for.

39. Red clay is used to make bricks and pottery.

40. Name the state reptile.

41. Eastern Box Turtle

42. The ________ is our state tree, and it can be used to make ___________ and _________________.

43. Tree, paper, and furniture

44. What are the three things that most of the state’s wood is used to make?

45. Furniture, Paper, and Lumber Products

46. What are the two main differences between broadleaf trees and needleleaf trees?

47. Broadleaf trees lose their leaves in the fall and have wide, flat leaves. Needleleaf trees stay green all year long and have thin, sharp needlelike leaves.

48. The state nickname is the _______________.

49. Tarheels

50. Explain an example of how natural resources are used to help our state economy.

51. We use natural resources like apples to sell and make apple pies or apple sauce. The money helps our state grow!