Bordering States
This state borders most of Virginia to the south.
What is North Carolina?
This region is a tiny plateau known for its coal deposits.
What is the Appalachian Plateau?
This is the body of water that borders Virginia to the east.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This is how long ago Native Americans first lived in Virginia.
What is thousands of years ago?
This is how archaeologists help us understand the past.
By studying material evidence (artifacts) left from people of the past.
This district borders Virginia but is NOT a bordering state.
What is Washington, D.C.?
This is the region farthest to the east of Virginia.
What is the Coastal Plain?
These are the rivers of Virginia in order from south to north.
What are the James, York, Rappahannock, and Potomac?
This is why Virginia's Native Americans are known as Eastern Woodlands Indians.
What is because forests covered most of the land on which they lived?
What is winter?
These five states border Virginia.
What are Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland, and North Carolina?
This region consists of old, rounded mountains and is the source of many rivers.
What is the Blue Ridge Mountains?
This body of water is a shallow lake inside of the Great Dismal Swamp.
What is Lake Drummond?
This is the region in which the Algonquian-speaking Powhatan Indians lived.
What is the Coastal Plains?
The Native Americans depended on this to build their shelters.
What is their environment?
A person driving west from Richmond would enter this state.
What is West Virginia?
This region is the most rugged of all five.
What is the Valley and Ridge?
This is the water feature that was explored by George Washington.
What is the Great Dismal Swamp?
This is the region in which Monacan Indians lived and spoke the Siouan language.
What is the Piedmont?
What is fishing and picking berries?
A person traveling north from Richmond would enter this state.
What is Maryland?
These two regions are part of the Appalachian Mountain System.
What are the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Valley and Ridge?
This is the body of water located west of the Eastern Shore.
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
It was the large Native American town used by Indian leaders for several hundred years before the English settled in Virginia.
What is Werowocomoco?
This thing is least likely to be a Native American artifact.
What is a journal? (Because they didn't have a written language AND because paper wouldn't last buried in the dirt for hundreds of years!)