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100
The height of land above sea level.
What is elevation?
100
The kind of weather a place has most often, year after year.
What is climate?
100
It is called the tidewater because the Chesapeake Bay rises and falls with the ocean tides.
What is the Coastal Plain?
100
Virginia's largest geographic region.
What is the Piedmont?
100
Virginia's smallest geographic region.
What is the Appalachian Plateau?
200
A piece of land bordered on three sides by water?
What is a Peninsula?
200
The easternmost part of the Coastal Plain.
What is the Eastern Shore?
200
Means land "at the foot of the mountains."
What is Piedmont?
200
A narrow strip of land west of the Piedmont.
What is the Blue Ridge Mountains?
200
The Blue Ridge Mountains stretch from here to here.
What is Canada and Northern Alabama?
300
The Appalachian Plateau stretches into these states.
What is West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee?
300
The number of valleys in the Valley and Ridge Region.
What is 5?
300
High, flat land.
What is a plateau?
300
Forms a natural border between the Piedmont and the Coastal Plain.
What is a fall line?
300
The westernmost part of the Valley and Ridge where state borders meet.
What is the Cumberland Gap?
400
Hilly land covered with thick forests.
What is the Appalachian Plateau?
400
A deep, narrow valley. Many of them are in the Appalachian Plateau.
What is a gorge?
400
The oldest mountains in North America.
What is the Blur Ridge Mountains?
400
Many rivers in Virginia begin here.
What is the Blue Ridge Mountains?
400
It's elevation can reach 2,000 feet near the mountains.
What is the Piedmont?
500
Describe the Coastal Plain's relative location using a complete sentence.
The Coastal Plain borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Chesapeake Bay.
500
Describe the Piedmont's relative location using a complete sentence.
The Piedmont is west of the Coastal Plain. The Piedmont is west of the fall line. The Piedmont is east of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
500
Describe the Blue Ridge Mountains relative location using a complete sentence.
The Blue Ridge Mountains are west of the Piedmont.
500
Describe the Valley and Ridge's relative location using a complete sentence.
The Valley and Ridge is west of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
500
Describe the Appalachian Plateau's relative location using a complete sentence.
The Appalachian Plateau borders West Virginia and Kentucky.