Language Groups
This tribe spoke Iroquoian language.
Who are the Cherokee?
Up on a map is this direction.
What is North?
This region is low, flat, and has many natural harbors.
What is the Coastal Plain?
An area of land with the same type of land and climate. Virginia has four of them.
What is a region?
This is the river you see if you go to old town Alexandria. You have to cross it to get to National Harbor.
What is the Potomac?
This tribe spoke Algonquin.
Who are the Powhatan?
The easternmost region in Virginia is called this.
What is the Coastal Plain?
This region has old, rounded mountains.
What is the Blue Ridge?
The study of the past by using found objects.
What is archaeology?
The Rappahannock River passes through this city.
What is Fredricksburg?
This tribe spoke Siouan.
Who are the Monacan?
This is not a flower, it is the round symbol on a map that has East, North, West, and South listed on it.
What is the compass rose?
This region has the great valley of Virginia.
What is the Ridge and Valley region?
An object (such as pottery shards, beads, or arrowheads) that teaches us about past cultures.
What is an artifact?
This city is the capital of Virginia. Mr. Nair used to live there.
What is Richmond?
This tribe lived in the Coastal Plain.
Who are the Powhatan?
If you drive from Alexandria to North Carolina, you go in this direction.
What is south?
This region has a plateau. A flat piece of elevated land.
What is the Appalachian Plateau?
What is a valley?
The longest river in Virginia. It was named after King James of England.
What is the James River?
This tribe lived in the Piedmont.
Who are the Monacan?
If you drive from Virginia, to Maryland, you are going in this direction.
What is North?
This line of waterfalls and rapids, separates the Coastal Plain and Piedmont.
What is the Fall Line?
How far above sea level a piece of land is ?
What is elevation?
The first permanent English settlement in North America?
What is Jamestown?