1. Maps and Regions

2. Virginia is bordered by...MD WV
Chesapeake Bay VA NC * KY
Atlantic Ocean TN * *

3. Virginia has 5 regions. Piedmont Tidewater Valley & Ridge
Appalachian Plateau
Piedmont
Tidewater
Blue Ridge Mountains

4. There are many peninsulas in the Tidewater region.
Eastern Shore

5. What forms a natural border between the Tidewater and Piedmont regions?
Fall Line

6. PLEASE READ YOUR JOURNAL!
There are four major rivers:
Rappahannock
Potomac
York
James
PLEASE READ YOUR JOURNAL!

7. Can you name these cities?
Alexandria
Fredericksburg
Richmond
Salem
Yorktown

8. Let’s play
Name
That
Region

9. source of many rivers
Blue Ridge Mountains

10. “land at the foot of the mountains”
Piedmont

11. Tidewater
low, flat land

12. Southwest Virginia
Appalachian
Plateau

13. rolling hills
Piedmont

14. elevated land that is flat on top
Appalachian
Plateau
elevated land that is flat on top

15. borders Atlantic Ocean
Tidewater

16. Blue Ridge
Mountains
old, rounded mountains

17. includes the Great Valley
Valley & Ridge

18. part of the Appalachian Mountain system
Blue Ridge
Mountains
Valley & Ridge

19. part of the Coastal Plain
Tidewater
part of the Coastal Plain