Coastal Plain
The Coastal Plain is known for this type of land.
What is flat land?
The word "Piedmont" means this.
What is land at the foot of mountains?
Describe the land of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
The Valley and Ridge region of Virginia includes this valley used as a migration route in early Virginian settlement.
What is the Great Valley of Virginia?
Water features were important to the early history of __________.
What is Virginia?
This is the word used to describe connections between two places, such as next to, near, or bordering.
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.
What is the Fall Line?
The Piedmont region is located in which direction compared to the Fall Line?
What is west?
Many of the _____________ start in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
What are rivers?
The Appalachian Plateau is located in this part of Virginia.
What is the southwest?
Name the two bodies of water that border Virginia.
This word means a piece of land bordered by water on three sides.
Name the swamp that is located within the Coastal Plain region. This swamp was also surveyed by George Washington.
What is the Great Dismal Swamp?
The Piedmont is located between these two regions in Virginia.
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.
What is east?
The Scots-Irish and German immigrants settled in this valley, located in the Valley and Ridge region.
The four major rivers that flow into the Chesapeake Bay are separated by these.
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.
What is Lake Drummond?
The Piedmont region is known for this type of land.
What is rolling hills?
Which mountain range is the Blue Ridge Mountain a part of?
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
Name the two regions that are a part 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.
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.
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.
This region has larger parts in Kentucky and Tennessee, but only a small part in Virginia.
Name Virginia's 4 major rivers and their important city.
What are: Potomac (Alexandria), Rappahannock (Fredericksburg), York (Yorktown), and the James (Richmond and Jamestown)?
What in the Fall Line prevented further travel by boat?
What is waterfalls?