Border States
Number of states that border Virginia.
What is 5
Number of geographic regions of Virginia.
What is 5?
A piece of land bordered on three sides by water.
What is a pensula?
Indians located in southwestern Virginia.
Who are the Cherokee?
Resulted in a variety of vegetation.
What is mild climate?
Directly north of Virginia.
What is Maryland?
Includes the Great Valley of VA and other valleys separated by ridges.
What is the Valley and Ridge Region?
Natural border where the land rises sharply and the waterfalls prevent further travel on the river.
What is the Fall Line?
Indians located in the Tidewater Region.
Who are the Powhatan?
Virginia's American Indians worked with the______ and _____ to meet their basic needs.
What are climate and environment?
Directly south of Virginia.
What is North Carolina?
Part of Appalachian mountain system and old round mountains.
What is the Blue Ridge Mountains Region?
Separates the Eastern Shore from the mainland of Virginia.
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
Christopher Columbus called the people this because he thought he was in the Indies (near China).
Who are Indians?
Hunted birds and animals and lived on stored good from the previous fall.
What is winter?
State north-west of Virginia.
What is West Virginia?
Rolling hills west of the Fall Line.
What is the Piedmont Region?
Provides transportation links between Virginia and other places (Europe, Africa and Caribbean.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Evidence that American Indians lived in all parts of Virginia.
What are artifacts and tools?
Had a variety of trees and covered most of the land.
What is forest?
Two large bodies of water that border Virginia.
What is the Atlanta Ocean and the Chesapeake Bay?
Flatland, east of the Fall Line and includes the Eastern Shore.
What is the Coastal Plain Region, also called Tidewater?
Richmond and Jamestown are located along this river and Yorktown is located along this river.
What are the James River and the York River?
Three major language groups found in Virginia.
What are Algonquian, Siouan and Iroquoian?
Made from materials around them and were used for clothing.
What were shelter and animal skins?