Landforms

Bodies of Water

Regions

Major Cities

Grab Bag

100

Rolling hills

Atlantic Ocean

 

Coastal Plain, Piedmont, Blue Ridge Mountains, Valley and Ridge, and Appalachian Plateau

Richmond and Jamestown

Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina

200

Between the Piedmont and Costal Plain

Chesapeake Bay

An area of elevated land that is flat on top.

Yorktown

The Atlantic Ocean and the Chesapeake Bay

300

Mountains and Plateau

Potomac, James, Rappahannock, York

Between the Piedmont and Valley and Ridge regions

Alexandria

A body of land surrounded on three sides by water.

400

Virginia’s peninsula bordered on the west by the Ches. Bay and the east by the Atlantic Ocean.

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

Flat land, Chesapeake Bay, lots of rivers and lakes.

Fredericksburg

The Eastern Shore

500

Forest

Food, transportation and fresh water.

Coastal Plain

Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Richmond

It provided a safe harbor and was a source of food and transportation.

 

 

Final Question: Coastal Plain, low, flat, land; Piedmont, rolling hills; Blue Ridge Mountains, Old rounded mountains; Valley and Ridge, many valleys separated by ridges, includes the Great Valley of Va.; Appalachian Plateau, elevated land that is flat on top.