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North Carolina Geography
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Geography
Undergraduate 2
02/07/2011

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What is systematic geography?
Definition
topical - such as political, historical, cultural...
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What is regional geography?
Definition
the place is the beginning; a look at physical and human traits; in spatial context
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What is geography?
Definition
the study of human and physical spatial pattern on the land
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What is a region?
Definition
a particular area of sameness
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Where is the oldest church in NC?
Definition
In Bath, NC - built in 1734
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What are the inlets and shifting sands of NC referred to?
Definition
the "Graveyard of the Atlantic"
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What kind of beaches commonly occur along the outer banks?
Definition
wide, natural beaches
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Where is the Buxton Woods Preserve?
Definition
at Cape Hatteras - Buxton, NC
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Why is the Buxton Woods Reserve (Cape Hatteras) in a unique geographic spot?
Definition
it is at the dividing line between the more tropical south (Gulf Stream)and the more middle latitue north (Labrador Current)
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What is a common trait of the Labrador Current?
Definition
it often times moves on shore causing rapid drops in water temperature
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What can the rapid drop of water temperature, due to on the on shore Labrador Current, lead to?
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Advection fog
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What is advection fog?
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fog over cold water - warm air moves over (Pamlico sound) cold water
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What are two theories of how the Outer Banks was formed?
Definition
spit growth and sea level rise
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What is the spit growth formation theory?
Definition
the drifting of sand parallel to the beach with longshore currents forms peninsulas
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What is the sea level rise formation theory?
Definition
at the end of the last ice age sea level rose and created gaps in land
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Which Outer Banks formation theory is most widely accepted as truth?
Definition
the sea level rise theory
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In which direction are the outer banks migrating: toward or away from the continent?
Definition
toward
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What is NC's role in beachfront protection?
Definition
to deal with coastal damage and the loss of shore line
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What is setback controversy?
Definition
a property can (and is) restricted from building too close to the beach
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According to NC state law regarding setback controversy, where may new structures be built in terms of beachfront?
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new structures are to be set back a certain distance from the first line of stable vegetation
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In 1979 how far back did buildings have to be from the beachfront?
Definition
30 times the natural annual erosion (migration) rate
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In 1983 what was the distance of building from beachfront increased to?
Definition
60 times the annual erosion rate
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What is the Planning Law?
Definition
gives the government right to shape land use - falls under government police powers
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What is eminent domain?
Definition
government taking of private land for public good - the government must pay fair market value for land
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Are the Outer Banks' inlets permanent or temporary?
Definition
temporary
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How did Oregon inlet form?
Definition
as the result of a hurricane in the mid 1800s
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Are jetty's allowed to be built at Oregon inlet?
Definition
no
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What is unique about New inlet?
Definition
it does not exist anymore - land closed together
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Where is Hatteras inlet?
Definition
at the southern tip of Hatteras island
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What is unique about Ocracoke inlet?
Definition
formed in the 1700s, since the time of Blackbeard, and contains the oldest operating lighthouse
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Name all of the inlets - 11

BBBBB,D, H, N, OO, S
Definition
Barden, Bear, Beaufort, Bogue, Brown, Drum, Hatteras, New, Ocracoke, Oregon and Sand Inlets
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What characteristics of inlets are constantly changing?
Definition
shape, width and depth
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This inlet shifted from 1958 to 1971 - North end migrated 5700' south, south end migrated 700' south, the inlet shrank by half and deepened
Definition
Oregon inlet
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What did the US Corps of Engineers at Oregon inlet do to keep the channel open?
Definition
planned to build a rock jetty to keep the channel open
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When did the Jetty plans begin at Oregon inlet and where are they now?
Definition
began in 1970 and was recently voted down
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Why is it important to keep Oregon inlet open?
Definition
recreation, commercial fishing fleet based on Roanoke island at Wanchese
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NC's tidewater history played a part in which war?
Definition
the Civil War
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What was significant about the towns of Newbern, Washington, Edenton and Elizabeth City during the Civil War?
Definition
they were all centers of trade
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What did the Confederates want with the trade centers (Newbern, Washington, Edenton and Elizabeth City) in NC during the Civil War and why?
Definition
wanted to use them to carry on with the outside world because the Chesapeake Bay was controlled by the federalists
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Why was Roanoke Island significant during the Civil War - specifically the town of Manteo?
Definition
it was looked to as a base by which to control the entire tidwater
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What happened at the Battle of Roanoke Island?
Definition
the federals landed on the south end and marched northward and encountered the "graybacks" about halfway up - the confederates escaped off of the north end
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Is there a distinct southern culture?
Definition
yes
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What is culture as a concept?
Definition
a culture is a set of traits that one must learn - it is its own object
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What is the old view of culture called?
Definition
superorganic theory
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What is today's more accurate view of culture?
Definition
it is performative and improvisational - lives in our relationships and in our understandings and meanings
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What cultural anthropologist wrote that "culture is build from the webs of significance which we ourselves have spun"?
Definition
Clifford Geertz
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What controls the change in culture?
Definition
Globalization
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What is culture?
Definition
culture is a way of interacting, a way of making sense of the world; it exists between us and we create it - it doesn't create us
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Has globalization harmed/reduced the power and distinctiveness of southern culture? why?
Definition
probably so; major cities in the south now have higher proportions of their populations who were born outside the south
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What other influence is there on southern culture?
Definition
national and international culture, as spread by media, tend to change ways of living
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What specific Christian denomination is the south domesticated by?
Definition
Evangelical Protestantism
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What are some characteristics of Evangelical Protestantism?
Definition
literal interpretation of Scripture, command to go out into the world and spread the gospel, and gains much of its identity from the Great commission - spreading the word
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