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100
The number of regions found in Virginia.

What is five?

100

This large body of water is found of the East coast of Virginia.

What is the Atlantic Ocean?

100

This is the region we call home.

What is the Coastal Plain region?

100

This river is where the first permanent English colony was established.

What is the James River?
100

An area of elevated land that is flat on top.

What is a plateau?

200

An imaginary line were Virginia rivers have waterfalls and rapids.

What is the Fall Line?

200

This body of water is where the the salt water from the Atlantic and the fresh water from rivers mixes together.

What is the Chesapeake Bay?

200

This is the smallest region in Virginia.

What is the Appalachian Plateau?

200

The city of Fredericksburg is located on this river.

What is the Rappahannock River?

200

Land surrounded by water on three sides.

What is a peninsula?

300
A Virginia peninsula surrounded by the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean.

What is the Eastern Shore?

300
This marshy area is found in the Tidewater and was once surveyed by George Washington.

What is the Great Dismal Swamp?

300

This region is full of rolling hills.

What is the Piedmont Region?

300

The city of Alexandria and Washington, D.C. are on this river.

What is the Potomac River?

300

The rise and fall of the ocean caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun.

What is a tide?

400

The Blue Ridge Mountains are part of this larger mountain chain.

What is the Appalachian Mountains?

400

This is one of the two natural lakes found in Virginia.

What is Lake Drummond?

400

This region is home to the Great Valley.

What is the Valley and Ridge?

400

The last major battle of the American Revolution was fought near this river.

What is the York River?

400

An area that is wet and wooded with pools of standing water.

What is a swamp?

500

This is the meaning of 'piedmont.'

What is the 'land at the foot of the mountain'?

500

This bridge goes over the Chesapeake Bay for 18 miles and connects the Eastern Shore to the rest of Virginia.

What is the Chesapeake Bay Bridge?

500

This region is part of the Appalachian Mountains.

What is the Blue Ridge Mountains region?

500

This is the starting place for many of Virginia's rivers.

What is the Blue Ridge Mountains?

500

The part of a river that meets the sea, so the salt water and fresh water mix.

What is an estuary?

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