South Carolina Regions

The Blue Ridge Region

1. The Blue Ridge Mountains are part of the Appalachian Mountain Range.

2. Many streams begin in the mountains.

3. These are the oldest mountains in America.

4. The Blue Ridge Region takes up only 2% of South Carolina’s land mass and is located in the northwestern corner of the state.

6. The highest mountain in SC is Sassafras Mountain.

7. Favorite activities include hiking and camping.

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Ridge

Piedmont Region

Piedmont

1.The Piedmont is the largest region of South Carolina.

2. The Piedmont is NOT flat, but has rolling hills.

3. A special feature is a monadnock which is an isolated, or single, hill made of very hard rock. Table Rock is an example of a monadnock.

4. The Piedmont contains many of the largest cities in South Carolina.

5. The nickname for this region is ”the foot of the mountains.”

6.The two important industries in the Piedmont region are peaches and textiles (cloth).

Sandhills Region

1. Long ago, the coastline reached all the way to the middle of the state.

2. You can find ocean remains of living things from long ago in the Sandhills region. This type of remain is called a fossil.

3. Our state capital, the large city of Columbia, is located in this region.

4. The fall line is east of the Sandhills. It is an imaginary line where the land in the middle of the state begins to slope downward.

5. Textile mills were built along the fall line to provide water power for the mills.

Sandhills

Inner Coastal Plains

1. This region is the center of SC’s cotton production.

2. SC’s best soil can be found here. Wheat and soybeans are crops grown in this region.

3. The land in this region is described by rolling hills.

4. Congaree National Park is found in the Inner Coastal Plains region.

5. The Coastal Plains used to be under the ocean millions of years ago.

6. More than half of this region is covered by forest..

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Outer Coastal Plains

Outer

Coastal

Plains

1. This region’s borders are the Inner Coastal Plain and the Coastal Zone.

2. The region is flat and broken up by many rivers and streams.

3. Swamps cover much of the land along the rivers.

4. Lumber companies have built railroads into the swamps to carry out lumber.

5. Canals were built to connect rivers so that ships could carry goods from place to place.

6. The Santee Canal was built to connect the Santee and the Cooper River.

7. Columbia and Charleston were the two cities that the Santee Canal allowed goods to be shipped.

8. Tributaries, or smaller rivers and streams, flow into larger rivers in this region.

Coastal Zone

Coastal

Zone

1. It borders the Atlantic Ocean.

2. The main industries are tourism and fishing.

3. Two physical features in this area are beaches, sea islands, barrier islands, and marshes.

4. The Grand Strand stretches 60 miles and is made up of wide sandy beaches.

5. South of the beaches you can find salt marshes. Marshes contain food that feeds shrimp and other shell fish.

6. The Ashley-Combahee-Edisto River System, also known as the ACE basin, are called “blackwater rivers” because the hardwood trees in the swamps drop their leaves and darken the water.

7. The Edisto River is the longest blackwater river in the United States.