Border States
VA Regions
VA Waters
Products and Industries
Transportation, Communication, and Technology
100
May be described using terms that show connections between two places such as "next to", "near", and "bordering".
What is relative location?
100
The natural border between the Coastal Plain (Tidewater) and Piedmont regions, where waterfalls prevent further travel on the river.
What is the Fall Line?
100
The four major rivers that flow into the Chesapeake Bay and are separated by peninsulas.
What are the James, York, Potomac, and Rappahannock Rivers?
100
This VA region is characterized by seafood and peanuts.
What is the Coastal Plain (Tidewater) region?
100
Moves raw materials to factories and finished products to market.
What is VA's transportation system (highways, railroads, and air transportation)?
200
Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay
What are two large bodies of water that border VA?
200
The five geographic regions of VA.
What are the Appalachian Plateau, Valley and Ridge, Blue Ridge Mountains, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain regions?
200
The body of water that separates the Eastern Shore from the mainland of VA.
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
200
Coal and coal mining are this region's major product and industry.
What is the Appalachian Plateau?
200
Four types of manufactured products exported by VA.
What are tobacco, poultry, coal, and large ships?
300
The five states that border VA.
What is Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina?
300
The region of VA with flat land, located near the Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay.
What is the Coastal Plain (Tidewater) region?
300
Provided transportation links between VA and other places like Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
300
The major industries of the Blue Ridge Mountain.
What is recreation and farming?
300
Tourism is a major part of VA's ___?___.
What is economy?
400
The state that borders VA to the south.
What is North Carolina?
400
The region with the name that means "land at the foot of the mountain".
What is the Piedmont?
400
The shallow natural lake located in the Coastal Plain region surrounded by the Dismal Swamp.
What is Lake Drummond?
400
The three regions of VA with farming as an important industry.
What are the Piedmont, Blue Ridge Mountains, and Valley and Ridge regions?
400
Because many federal workers live and/or work in VA, the ___?____ has a significant impact on VA's economy.
What is the federal government?
500
The state that borders VA to the Northeast.
What is Maryland?
500
The two regions that are part of the Appalachian mountain system.
What are the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Valley and Ridge regions?
500
An area located in the Tidewater region with a variety of wildlife that was explored by George Washington.
What is the Dismal Swamp?
500
The major products and industries of the Piedmont region.
What is tobacco, information technology, federal and state government, farming, and the horse industry?
500
Advances in transportation, communications, and technology have contributed to VA's prosperity and role in the ___?___.
What is global economy?
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