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| Term | Definition |
| geographic region | large area of land with a common set of features. |
| Outer Banks | long chain of sandbars and barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina. |
| Coastal Plain | broad, flat region in North Carolina that stretches 100 to 150 miles inland from the ocean. |
| Tidewater | low-lying eastern part of North Carolina's Coastal Plain. |
| Piedmont | hilly region between the Coastal Plain and teh Appalachian Mountains. |
| climate | the main kind of weather that a region experiences over an extended period |
| Sun Belt | strip of warm-weather states that runs across the southern United States. |
| natural resource | any part of nature that people use in some way. |
| sandbank | a large deposit of sand forming a mound, ridge, or hillside. |
| vicinity | the surrounding area |
| topography | physical terrain |
| primary source | firsthand account |
| fall line | dividing line between the Piedmont and the Coastal Plain. |
| environment | all the living and nonliving things that make up a region |
| cape | points of land jutting out in to the ocean. |
| barrier island | long narrow deposits of sand separated by water from the mainland. |
