Coastal Plain
The Coastal Plain is known for this type of land.
A. Rolling Hills
B. Flat Land
C. Mountains
What is flat land?
The word "Piedmont" means this.
A. Land at the foot of the mountains
B. Land by the fall line
C. Land west of the coastal plain
What is land at the foot of mountains?
Describe the land of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
A. Mountains with fairly flat land at the top
B. Old, rounded mountains
C. Flat land and surrounded by water
What are old, rounded mountains?
The Valley and Ridge region of Virginia includes this valley used as a migration route in early Virginian settlement.
A. Mountains Route
B. Great Valley of Virginia
C. Great Ridge of Virginia
What is the Great Valley of Virginia?
Water features were important to the early history of __________.
A. Virginia
B. North Carolina
C. Maryland
What is Virginia?
This is the word used to describe connections between two places, such as next to, near, or bordering.
A. Relative Location
B. Relative Place
C. Relative Store
What is relative location?
This natural border between the Coastal Plain and the Piedmont regions has waterfalls where it prevents further travel on the rivers.
A. Accident Zone
B. Eastern Shore
C. Fall Line
What is the Fall Line?
The Piedmont region is located in which direction compared to the Fall Line?
A. West
B. East
C. South
What is west?
True or False.
The Blue Ridge Mountains are also known for being the source or beginning of many rivers.
True
The Appalachian Plateau is located in this part of Virginia.
A. Southeast
B. Southwest
C. Northeast
What is the southwest?
Name the two bodies of water that border Virginia.
A. Eastern Shore and Atlantic Ocean
B. Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay
C. Chesapeake Bay and Eastern Shore
What are the Atlantic Ocean and the Chesapeake Bay?
This word means a piece of land bordered by water on three sides.
A. Rivers and Lakes
B. Island
C. Peninsula
What is a peninsula?
Name the swamp that is located within the Coastal Plain region. This swamp was also surveyed by George Washington.
A. Great Dismal Swamp
B. Great Lakes Swamp
C. Great Drummond Swamp
What is the Great Dismal Swamp?
The Piedmont is located between these two regions in Virginia.
A. Coastal Plain and Blue Ridge
B. Valley and Ridge and Appalachian Plateau
C. Blue Ridge Mountains and Valley and Ridge
What are the Coastal Plain and Blue Ridge Mountains?
The Blue Ridge Mountains are located in this direction compared to the Valley and Ridge region.
A. East
B. North
C. West
What is east?
The Valley and Ridge is known for this industry.
A. Apples
B. Poultry Farming
C. Coal
What is the poultry farming?
The four major rivers that flow into the Chesapeake Bay are separated by these.
A. Eastern Shore
B. Peninsula
C. Islands
What are peninsulas?
Name the five bordering states.
What are Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina?
This lake with the Great Dismal Swamp, also located in the Coastal Plain, is a natural, shallow lake.
A. Lake Superior
B. Lake Drummond
C. Lake Eerie
What is Lake Drummond?
The Piedmont region is known for this type of land.
A. Flat land
B. Swampy land
C. Rolling Hills
What is rolling hills?
Each river was a source of food and provided a pathway for...
A. exploration and settlement
B. exploration and war
C. exploration and food
What are exploration and settlement?
Name one region that is apart of the Appalachian Mountain system.
What are the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Valley and Ridge region?
This body of water provided transportation links between Virginia and other places such as Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean.
A. Atlantic Ocean
B. Pacific Ocean
C. Indian Ocean
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Virginia can be divided into _____ geographic regions.
What are 5?
This peninsula is separated from the Virginia mainland by the Chesapeake Bay and is also a part of the Coastal Plain region.
A. Chesapeake Bay
B. Atlantic Ocean
C. Eastern Shore
What is the Eastern Shore?
True or False: The Piedmont region is Virginia's smallest region.
What is false? The Piedmont is Virginia's largest region.
True or false: The Blue Ridge Mountains are west of the Valley and Ridge region.
What is false?
This region has larger parts in Kentucky and Tennessee, but only a small part in Virginia.
A. Coastal Plain
B. Piedmont
C. Blue Ridge
D. Valley and Ridge
E. Appalachian Plateau
What is the Appalachian Plateau?
Name Virginia's 4 major rivers. Please Remember Your Jacket!
What are: Potomac (Alexandria), Rappahannock (Fredericksburg), York (Yorktown), and the James (Richmond and Jamestown)?
Many early Virginia ___________ developed along the Fall Line.
A. States
B. Fairs
C. Cities
What are cities?