Geographic Regions
This region is located in the far western part of Virginia and has high mountains.
What is the Appalachian Plateau?
This large body of water borders eastern Virginia.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This state borders Virginia to the north and is home to Washington, D.C.
What is Maryland?
This is a renewable natural resource found in Virginia’s forests.
What is timber or wood?
Virginia’s capital city.
What is Richmond?
This region has rolling hills and is located west of the Fall Line. (Answer: What is the Piedmont region?)
What is the Piedmont region?
This bay is important for transportation and food.
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
This state lies to the west of Virginia and was part of Virginia until 1863.
What is West Virginia?
This nonrenewable resource mined in southwestern Virginia is used for energy.
What is coal?)
This city is located where the York River meets the Chesapeake Bay and was a key Revolutionary War site.
What is Yorktown?
This flat, low-lying region is closest to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Coastal Plain or Tidewater region?
This river flows into the Chesapeake Bay and Richmond is located along it.
What is the James River?
This state borders Virginia to the south and is known for the Research Triangle.
What is North Carolina?
These are Virginia’s major products from the Piedmont region.
What are technology and livestock?
This historic town was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This region includes the Blue Ridge Mountains.
What is the Blue Ridge Mountains region?
These two rivers form the Virginia–Maryland border.
What are the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers?
This state borders Virginia to the southwest.
What is Tennessee?
This region is known for seafood and shipbuilding.
What is the Coastal Plain or Tidewater region?
This mountain range forms the western border of the Valley and Ridge region.
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
These are the five geographic regions of Virginia.
What are Coastal Plain, Piedmont, Blue Ridge Mountains, Valley and Ridge, and Appalachian Plateau?
This river flows past the city of Yorktown.
What is the York River?
These five states border Virginia.
What are Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina?
These are examples of Virginia’s natural resources.
What are forests, coal, water, and fertile soil?
This city is part of the Coastal Plain region and known for its naval base.
What is Norfolk?