Water Country!
Where Are We?
Regionally Speaking!
Where?
Think hard!
100
The river between the James and the Rappahannock Rivers. . .
What is the York?
100
What states border Virginia?
What are Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina?
100
In which two geographical regions are the land features similar?
What are the Blue Ridge and Appalachian Plateau? [they both have mountains and more rugged territory.]
100
Which natural border is shared by both the Coastal Plain (Tidewater) and Piedmont Regions?
What is the Fall Line?
100
What is the largest natural lake in Virginia and where is it located?
What is Lake Drummond in the Great Dismal Swamp?
200
The river between the Potomac and the York Rivers. . .
What is the Rappahhannock?
200
While swimming off the coast of Virginia Beach, a person would be in the
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
200
The geographic region located between the Coastal Plain and Blue Ridge Mountain Regions. . .
What is the Piedmont?
200
The large waterway that provided a safe harbor for the first settlers of Virginia
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
200
What the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Valley and Ridge Regions have in common?
What is they are both part of the Appalachian Mountain system?
300
The 2 large bodies of water that border Virginia
What are the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean?
300
It includes the Great Valley and is located west of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
What is the Valley Ridge Region?
300
Flat land, near Atlantic Ocean
What is the Coastal Plain or Tidewater?
300
The waterway that was important to the European explorers and led to the exploration of Virginia. . .
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
300
How are the Coastal Plain and Piedmont Regions of Virginia different?
The coastal Plain is flat and the Piedmont is hilly.
400
City that developed on the Potomac River
What is Alexandria?
400
The 5 geographic regions of Virginia from east to west. . .
What are the Coastal Plain, the Piedmont, the Blue Ridge, the Valley Ridge, and the Appalachian Plateau?
400
Mountains
What is the Blue Ridge Region?
400
What Gap was important to people moving to the West over the Appalachian Mts.?
What is the Cumberland Gap?
400
How are the James, York, Potomac, and Rappahannock Rivers alike in where they flow?
They all flow into the Chesapeake Bay.
500
The largest natural lake in Virginia?
What is Lake Drummond?
500
The Eastern Shore is part of which geographic region of Virginia
What is the Coastal Plain or Tidewater?
500
Southwest Virginia, elevated flat land
What is the Appalachian Plateau?
500
Where is the Cumberland Gap located?
It is in the southwest corner of the Valley Ridge Region.
500
Which geographic region of Virginia is the source of many rivers?
What is the Blue Ridge Region?
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