WV Geography
This is the capital city of West Virginia.
What is Charleston?
There are this many tourist regions in WV.
What is 9?
This black fossil fuel has been one of West Virginia's most important natural resources and industries.
What is coal?
This form of transportation uses trains to move West Virginia coal and other products to markets across the United States.
What is railroad transportation?
This financial plan helps individuals track income, expenses, and savings.
What is a budget?
West Virginia has this number of counties.
What is 55?
This outdoor activity involves traveling down rivers and rapids in an inflatable boat and is popular in West Virginia.
What is whitewater rafting?
This early West Virginia industry involved cutting trees and processing wood into lumber.
What is the timber industry?
Goods and services purchased from another country are known by this economic term.
What are imports?
Rent, groceries, and electricity are generally classified as these rather than wants.
What are needs?
This major mountain range runs through West Virginia and influences the state's climate, transportation, and settlement patterns.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This famous bridge in Fayette County attracts visitors and hosts an annual festival known as Bridge Day.
What is the New River Gorge Bridge?
This early industrial furnace in present-day Weirton, associated with Peter Tarr, produced iron in the early 1800s.
What is Peter Tarr's iron furnace?
This term describes the increasing connections among countries through trade, technology, communication, and business.
What is globalization?
This is the additional amount a borrower may have to pay for using money borrowed through a loan or credit card.
What is interest?
This county is home to Clarksburg and is located in north-central West Virginia.
What is Harrison County?
This national historical park in the Eastern Panhandle is known for John Brown's 1859 raid.
What is Harpers Ferry National Historical Park?
Coal, petroleum, and natural gas belong to this resource category because they cannot be replaced within a human lifetime.
What are nonrenewable resources?
A West Virginia company sells manufactured products overseas. This is one way international trade can benefit West Virginia workers and communities.
What is creating or supporting jobs?
Unlike keeping money in a traditional savings account, purchasing stocks or other assets in hopes of earning a future return is called this.
What is investing?
West Virginia separated from this state during the Civil War and officially became a state in this year.
What are Virginia and 1863?
Name three of the nine tourist regions in WV.
What is Eastern Panhandle, Northern Handle, Potomac Highlands, Mountaineer Country, Mountain Lakes, New River/Greenbrier Valley, Mid-Ohio Valley, Metro Valley, Hatfield-McCoy Mountains
This early West Virginia industry became especially important in the Kanawha Valley because underground deposits of brine could be processed into a valuable product used to preserve food.
What is the salt industry?
A West Virginia company sells coal to Japan. In this transaction, West Virginia is participating in this type of international trade because it is selling a product to another country.
What is exporting?
A student earns $2,000 per month after taxes and spends $1,650 on expenses. If they save all the money left over, this is how much they will save in six months.
What is $2,100?