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1. What is the only county in North Carolina that contains parts of four different river basins?
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2. In what river basin is the main river made up almost entirely of lakes? Answer
3. Which river basin contains both a national wilderness area and North Carolina's largest
city? Answer
4. In what river basin is the entire 115-mile long mainstem designated as a State Natural
and Scenic River? Answer
5. Which river basin contains one of the oldest rivers in the world? Answer
6. Which river basin contains the largest man-made lake in the state? Answer
7. In which river basin does the mainstem river change its name as it changes from a
freshwater stream into a tidal estuary? Answer
8. What is the only river basin that empties into coastal waters in North Carolina that
originates in the mountains?
(Hint: The river basin does not originate in the North Carolina mountains) Answer
9. Is there any river basin in North Carolina that flows from the North Carolina mountains to
the North Carolina coast? Answer
10. Which river basin cuts North Carolina in half? (Hint: It flows south from Virginia through
North Carolina and into South Carolina) Answer
11. Which two other river basins cut across the state and in what direction do they flow?
(Hint: They are both located in the mountains of North Carolina)
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12. Which is the only river basin that is located entirely within North Carolina's coastal plain?
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13. In what river basin does the name of the mainstem change its spelling when it crosses
the state line? Answer
14. What is the only river basin in North Carolina that has three locks and dams? Answer
15. In what river basin is the capital of North Carolina found? Answer
16. How many river basins in North Carolina receive waters that flow from Virginia? Answer
17. How many states receive waters flowing from North Carolina? Answer
18. In which river basin is the Qualla Boundary (Cherokee Indian Reservation) located?
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19. What is the only river basin in North Carolina that doesn't contain any part of the main
river for which it's named? Answer
20. What two major rivers flow from North Carolina into another state, back into North
Carolina and then back out again? Answer
21. Which rivers do not have their headwaters in the mountains of North Carolina? Answer
22. Which river basin contains the highest elevation mountain in North Carolina? Answer
23. What is the largest river basin in North Carolina? Answer
24. What is the smallest river basin within North Carolina? Answer
25. Which river basin contains a city founded by Europeans in 1655?
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26. Which river basin contains the largest permanently filled Carolina Bay lake in North
Carolina? Answer
27. Which basin is home to a unique ‘dog’ that was named after the river it lives in? Answer
28. Which river basin contains the state's largest natural lake? Answer
29. Which river basin once had a bad reputation and a spooky name? Answer
30. The mainstem of which river basin changes its name within North Carolina? Answer
31. Which river basins are found entirely within North Carolina? Answer
ANSWERS...
1. Watauga County contains parts of the Yadkin-Pee Dee, New, Watauga and Catawba
River basins. Back
2. The Catawba River is impounded by seven lakes in North Carolina (Lake James,
Rhodhiss Lake, Lake Hickory, Lookout Shoals Lake, Lake Norman, Mountain Island
Lake, and Lake Wylie). Back
3. The Catawba River basin contains the Linville Gorge Wilderness Area and the City of
Charlotte. Back
4. The Lumber River is a State Natural and Scenic River (eighty-one miles is also
designated a National Wild and Scenic River). Back
5. The New River in Allegheny, Ashe and Watauga counties is one of the world's oldest
rivers. Back
6. The Catawba River basin is home to Lake Norman, the largest man-made lake in N.C.
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7. The Tar-Pamlico River changes its name from the Tar River to the Pamlico River at
Washington, NC. Hence, the name Tar-Pamlico. Back
8. The Roanoke River basin. Back
9. No. Back
10. The Yadkin-Pee Dee River basin. Back
11. The French Broad and Little Tennessee River basins both flow northwest. Back
12. The White Oak River basin. Back
13. The Hiwassee River in North Carolina changes from the Hiawassee River as it flows from
Georgia. Back
14. The Cape Fear River basin. Back
15. The City of Raleigh is located in the Neuse River basin. Back
16. Five. They include the New (mainstem flows into Virginia, back into NC and then back to
VA), Yadkin-Pee Dee, Roanoke, Chowan and Pasquotank River basins.
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17. Four. They include South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia and Tennessee. Back
18. The Little Tennessee River basin. Back
19. While the Savannah River basin originates in North Carolina, the mainstem of the
Savannah River begins below Lake Hartwell in South Carolina, which is located at the
confluence of the Tugaloo and Seneca Rivers. Back
20. The New River and the Dan River (major watershed of the Roanoke River basin). Back
21. The Chowan, Pasquotank, Tar-Pamlico, Neuse, White Oak, Cape Fear and Lumber
River basins. Back
22. The French Broad River basin contains Mount Mitchell. Back
23. The Cape Fear River basin. Back
24. The Savannah River basin. Back
25. The Chowan River basin contains Edenton, the first permanent European settlement in
N.C. Back
26. The Lumber River basin contains Lake Waccamaw, N.C.’s most biologically diverse lake.
The lake is the largest permanent water-filled Carolina Bay in N.C. Back
27. The Neuse River waterdog is a large aquatic salamander that lives in the Neuse River.
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28. The Tar-Pamlico River basin contains Lake Mattamuskeet which covers about 40,000
acres. Back
29. The Roanoke River was once called ‘the river of death’ because its spring floods claimed
so many lives. Back
30. The Yadkin-Pee Dee River basin changes from the Yadkin River to the Pee-Dee River
below the confluence of the Uwharrie River.
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31. The Tar-Pamlico, Cape Fear, Neuse and White Oak River basins. Back to Top