Geographic
Themes
Themes
Climate, Natural Wonders, and Bodies of Water.
What is Place?
Where WVU is located. It's named after the university's mascot.
What is Mountaineer Country?
They first arrived in western Virginia around 10,000 BC.
Who were the Paleo cultures?
They arrived in the 1730s, seeking refuge from religious persecutions in their native homelands.
Who were the Germans?
This was a dreaded bacterial infection common among frontier settlers.
What was St. Anthony's Fire?
This Metro Valley county seat is also the state's capital and its largest city by population.
What is Charleston?
Absolute or relative.
What is Location?
This Ohio-bordering region includes the seats of Wheeling, Wellsburg, and New Cumberland.
What is the Northern Panhandle?
The atlatl was developed to kill smaller, faster game by these peoples.
Who where the Archaic cultures?
This English monarch forcibly emigrated the Scots-Irish from their native lands to the Emerald Isle.
Who was James IV?
Along with the juice of onions or garlic, this liquid was often held as a potential cure for what ailed a frontiersman.
What is black cat's blood?
This is the northernmost county seat.
What is New Cumberland?
Coal mining or a winter coat.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
The geographic center of West Virginia lies in Braxton County, in this centrally-located tourist region.
What is the Mountain Lakes?
These people were the dominant culture in western Virginia throughout the first three-quarters of the Woodland Period.
This politician outlawed internal migration within the Virginia colony, a tactic he hoped would spur growth and increase the frontier population.
Who was the colonial governor?
This was a common disease caused by poor diet and resulting in the painful swelling of the extremities, especially the legs or feet.
What is gout?
The county seat of Mercer County along the Virginia border is the Mountain State's southernmost.
What is Princeton?
1o ÷ 3600.
What is a second?
The entire Kentucky border abuts this feuding tourist region.
What is the Hatfield-McCoy Mountains?
What is 62 feet?
The opposite of speculators, these poor settlers looked to purchase small claims upon which to build their fortunes.
One who moves from one place to another and back again is known as this.
What is a migrant?
This county seat, located in Braxton County, is the most geographically central of all 55.
What is Sutton?
N, S, E, or W in an absolute location.
What are azimuths?
The smallest tourist region by county inclusion.
What is the Eastern Panhandle?
What is 400?
The Scots-Irish were willing to fight for their rights, but Germans had this perspective, unwilling to resort to violence under any circumstance.
What is pacifist?
A common indication of success on the frontier was the raising of this corpulent slop-eating livestock.
What is a hog/pig?
While some may believe Summersville is the county seat of Summers county, it is actually the seat of this county, two counties north of Summers.
What is Nicholas County?
This is the name given to the line of longitude 180o from the Prime Meridian.
What is the International Date Line?
This region, inclosing the southern reaches of the Allegheny Highlands geographic region, boasts the cities of Lewisburg, Princeton, and Union.
What is the New River/Greenbrier Valley?
Who were the Fort Ancients?
This fixed societal system, common in Europe, was a major reason people moved to the frontier where a man's future was based upon effort, not birth.
What is a caste system?
In addition to a single room, a larger frontier cabin may include this cramped, elevated storage and sleeping space.
What is a loft?
This is the Northern Panhandle's southernmost and westernmost county seat.
What is Middlebourne?