REGIONS OF SOUTH CAROLINA

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REGIONS OF SOUTH CAROLINA

• Created by Pam Gunter
• Lexington Middle School, Lexington School
  District One

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Regions

• The State is divided into 2 large regions
• The Up Country
• The Low Country
• They are divided by the fall line-the ancient
• coast
• These regions are divided into 6 smaller
• regions.

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1. COASTAL ZONE

• 185 miles along the Atlantic Ocean and includes
• - Grand Strand
• - Barrier Islands
• - Salt Marshes

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2. OUTER COASTAL PLAIN

• 30 to 50 miles wide
• Savanna vegetation
• Location of rice and indigo plantations

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3. INNER COASTAL PLAIN

• Fertile soil
• Location of cotton plantations
• Carolina Bays -
• oval depressions in
• swamps

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4. SANDHILLS

• Extends along the fall line.
• Contains the red hills.
• Fruits and vegetables are grown here.

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5. PIEDMONT

• Means foot of the mountain.
• Contains nearly 1/3rd of the state.
• Rapidly flowing creeks and rivers.

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6. BLUE RIDGE

• High peaks and valleys
• Sassafras Mt is the highest peak in the state.
• Whitewater Falls the highest waterfall east of
  the Mississippi River.