Waters of Virginia
Location
Resources
Natural Virginia
Pot Luck
100
The four main rivers that flow into Virginia from the Chesapeake Bay
What are the Potomac, Rappahannock, York and James Rivers
100
The two hemispheres that Virginia lies in
What is the Western and the Northern hemispheres
100
Virginia's renewable resources
What are soil, forests, and water?
100
Virginia has this kind of climate
What is a temperate climate?
100
A piece of land bordered by water on three sides
What is a peninsula
200
The name of the continent Virginia is on
What is North America
200
The type of resource that with careful planning can be replaced or replenished after use
What is a renewable resource?
200
The name of the mountain range in western Virginia
What are the Blue Ridge Mountains?
200
The word for when rainfall is far below normal
What is a drought?
300
One reason the Chesapeake Bay is important to Virginia
What is it provides transportation of goods, has busy ports, or for recreation
300
Two island that are part of Virginia
What are Chincoteague and Assateague Islands
300
Virginia's most valuable renewable resource
What are forests?
300
The area of Virginia with the coolest temperatures
What is the mountains?
400
The name of the swamp south of Norfolk that is forty miles long and ten miles wide
What is the Great Dismal Swamp?
400
The name of the tallest peak in Virginia
What is Mt. Rogers
400
Virginia's most important nonrenewable resource
What is coal, natural gas, petroleum, and minerals?
400
Virginia's features and landforms
What are coastline, islands, mountains, valleys, waterways, forests, caves and rock formations such as the Natural Bridge.
500
A land feature created by running water
What is a mountain gap or a cave
500
The land between the Potomac, the Rappanhanock, the York, and the James River
What is Northern Neck, Middle Peninsula, and The Peninsula?
500
The nonrenewable resource produced at the Nora Gas Fields
What is natural gas?
500
People have to protect the water supply from pollutes for this reason
What is if the water is too polluted, there won't be enough for people to use?
500
The part of Virginia separated from the rest of the state by the Chesapeake Bay.
What is the Eastern Shore?
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