Coastal Plain
Piedmont
The BRM
V&R and the AP
Water, Water Everywhere
Around Virginia
100

The Coastal Plain is known for this type of land.

A. Rolling Hills

B. Flat Land

C. Mountains

What is flat land?

100

The word "Piedmont" means this.


A. Land at the foot of the mountains

B. Land by the fall line

C. Land west of the coastal plain

What is land at the foot of mountains?

100

Describe the land of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

A. Mountains with fairly flat land at the top

B. Old, rounded mountains

C. Flat land and surrounded by water

What are old, rounded mountains?


100

The Valley and Ridge region of Virginia includes this valley used as a migration route in early Virginian settlement.

A. Mountains Route

B. Great Valley of Virginia

C. Great Ridge of Virginia

What is the Great Valley of Virginia?


100

Water features were important to the early history of __________.

A. Virginia

B. North Carolina

C. Maryland

What is Virginia?


100

This is the word used to describe connections between two places, such as next to, near, or bordering.

A. Relative Location

B. Relative Place

C. Relative Store

What is relative location?

200

This natural border between the Coastal Plain and the Piedmont regions has waterfalls where it prevents further travel on the rivers.

A. Accident Zone

B. Eastern Shore

C. Fall Line

What is the Fall Line?

200

The Piedmont region is located in which direction compared to the Fall Line?

A. West

B. East

C. South

What is west?

200

True or False.

The Blue Ridge Mountains are also known for being the source or beginning of many rivers.


True

200

The Appalachian Plateau is located in this part of Virginia.

A. Southeast

B. Southwest

C. Northeast

What is the southwest?


200

Name the two bodies of water that border Virginia.

A. Eastern Shore and Atlantic Ocean

B. Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay

C. Chesapeake Bay and Eastern Shore

What are the Atlantic Ocean and the Chesapeake Bay?


200

This word means a piece of land bordered by water on three sides.

A. Rivers and Lakes

B. Island

C. Peninsula

What is a peninsula?


300

Name the swamp that is located within the Coastal Plain region.  This swamp was also surveyed by George Washington.


A. Great Dismal Swamp

B. Great Lakes Swamp

C. Great Drummond Swamp

What is the Great Dismal Swamp?

300

The Piedmont is located between these two regions in Virginia.

A. Coastal Plain and Blue Ridge

B. Valley and Ridge and Appalachian Plateau

C. Blue Ridge Mountains and Valley and Ridge

What are the Coastal Plain and Blue Ridge Mountains?

300

The Blue Ridge Mountains are located in this direction compared to the Valley and Ridge region.

A. East

B. North

C. West

What is east?


300

The Valley and Ridge is known for this industry.

A. Apples

B. Poultry Farming

C. Coal

What is the poultry farming?



300

The four major rivers that flow into the Chesapeake Bay are separated by these.

A. Eastern Shore

B. Peninsula

C. Islands

What are peninsulas?


300

Name the five bordering states.

What are Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina?

400

This lake with the Great Dismal Swamp, also located in the Coastal Plain, is a natural, shallow lake.

A. Lake Superior

B. Lake Drummond

C. Lake Eerie

What is Lake Drummond?

400

The Piedmont region is known for this type of land.

A. Flat land

B. Swampy land

C. Rolling Hills

What is rolling hills?

400

Each river was a source of food and provided a pathway for...

A. exploration and settlement

B. exploration and war

C. exploration and food

What are exploration and settlement?


400

Name one region that is apart of the Appalachian Mountain system.

What are the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Valley and Ridge region?


400

This body of water provided transportation links between Virginia and other places such as Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean.

A. Atlantic Ocean

B. Pacific Ocean

C. Indian Ocean

What is the Atlantic Ocean?


400

Virginia can be divided into _____ geographic regions.


What are 5?

500

This peninsula is separated from the Virginia mainland by the Chesapeake Bay and is also a part of the Coastal Plain region.

A. Chesapeake Bay

B. Atlantic Ocean

C. Eastern Shore

What is the Eastern Shore?

500

True or False:  The Piedmont region is Virginia's smallest region.

What is false?  The Piedmont is Virginia's largest region.

500

True or false:  The Blue Ridge Mountains are west of the Valley and Ridge region.

What is false?

500

This region has larger parts in Kentucky and Tennessee, but only a small part in Virginia.

A. Coastal Plain

B. Piedmont

C. Blue Ridge

D. Valley and Ridge

E. Appalachian Plateau

What is the Appalachian Plateau?


500

Name Virginia's 4 major rivers. Please Remember Your Jacket!

What are:  Potomac (Alexandria), Rappahannock (Fredericksburg), York (Yorktown), and the James (Richmond and Jamestown)?

500

Many early Virginia ___________ developed along the Fall Line.

A. States

B. Fairs

C. Cities

What are cities?