The Five Regions
The five regions of Virginia
Plateau, Valley and Ridge, Blue Ridge, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain.
Provided a transportation link from Virginia to Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
The twice daily rise and fall of the ocean caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun
What are tides?
A large Indian town on the banks of the York River in Gloucester County used by Indian leaders for hundreds of years before English boats sailed in.
What is Werowocomoco?
In December 1606,m the Virginia Company launched three small ships ___________, ________, and the ___________.
What are the Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery?
The region of Virginia east of the Fall Line
coastal plain or Tidewater
A safe place for a variety of wildlife located in the Coastal Plain
What is the Dismal Swamp?
The study of past cultures using material items left behind by past peoples
What is archaeology?
A trio of plants all of the Indian groups depended on
What are corn,beans, and squash?
The first permanent English settlement in British North America
What is Jamestown?
Flat land near the Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay
What is the Coastal Plain?
Provided a safe harbor for ships and was a food source
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
A piece of land bordered by water on three sides
What is a peninsula?
A public festival held on tribal land to teach both American Indians and visitors about tribal culture, past and present
What is a powwow?
After a summer of drought and poor harvests, the winter of 1609-1610 was brutal. That terrible winter became known as the _________ ___________ and many of the colonists died.
What is the Starving Time?
Rich farmland in the valleys separated by forested ridges
What is the Valley and Ridge region?
A shallow natural lake surrounded by the Dismal Swamp
What is Lake Drummond?
Objects or tools that tell about people from the past
What are artifacts?
Dried seeds revealed the kinds of _______ the Powhatan grew.
What are crops?
In 1620, a new group sailed into Jamestown on two ships
What is women?
Old rounded mountains and a source of many rivers
What are the Blue Ridge Mountains?
Richmond and Jamestown are located on this river
What is the James River?
The part of a river that meets the sea where fresh river water and ocean saltwater mix
What is an estuary?
Fishing was a big part of everyday life. The Indians used _____ ______ made from cutting down tree trunks, then hollowing them out by slowly burning and scooping out the charred interior.
What are dugout canoes?
John Rolfe brought a handful of seeds for this new crop back to the colony after visiting the Caribbean.
What is tobacco?