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Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay
What are the large bodies of water that border Virginia?
The natural border between the Coastal Plain and Piedmont regions.
What is the Fall Line?
The four major rivers of Va. flow into this body of water.
What is the Cheaspeake Bay?
The first permanent settlement in Virginia.
What is Jamestown?
Another name for the Coastal Plain region.
What is Tidewater?
"Next to," "near," "bordering"
What are some ways that describe relative location?
The number "five"
What are the number of regions in Virginia?
This body of water separates the Eastern Shore from the mainland of Virginia.
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
This country wanted to establish an American colony to increase her wealth and power.
What is England?
Land at the foot of mountains.
What does Piedmont mean?
This state borders Virginia to the North.
What is Maryland?
This region has flat land, located near the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Coastal Plain?
A piece of land surrounded by water on 3 sides.
What is a peninsula?
The stockholders of this company financed the settlement of Jamestown.
What is the Virginia Company of London?
Area of elevated land that is flat on top.
What is a plateau?
This state borders Virginia to the South.
What is North Carolina?
This region has old, rounded mountains, located between the Piedmont and Valley and Ridge regions.
What is the Blue Ridge Mountains?
A natural lake surrounded by the Dismal Swamp.
What is Lake Drummond"
England hoped to find these 2 metals in Virginia.
What are silver and gold?
Father of Our Country.
Who is George Washington?
Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina
What are the states that border Virginia?
This region included the Great Valley of Va. and is located West of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
What is the Valley and Ridge
This peninsula is bordered by the Chesapeake Bay to the West and the Atlantic Ocean to the East.
What is the Eastern Shore?
An American settlement would furnish this material that could not be grown or obtained in England.
What is raw material?
Referred to as the "Father of the Constitution".
Who is James Madison?