The Regions of West Virginia

one who drills in untapped areas

• region

• urban

• tourist

• wildcatter

one who moves into a new country to settle there

• wildcatter

• tourist

• immigrant

• urban

someone who travels away from home to another place and who does not plan to stay there permanently

• wildcatter

• plateau

• tourist

• immigrant

an area with common characteristics, such as soil, vegetation, climate, landforms, recreations, or economics.

• urban

• region

• rural

• plateau

of or like a city or town.

• region

• rural

• urban

• plateau

an elevated tract of more or less level land

• rural

• region

• urban

• plateau

items left behind by ancient people such as bowls

• artifacts

• wildcatter

• plateau

• immigrant

countrylike

• region

• rural

• urban

• plateau

______________________, _________________________, and ______________________ counties have the Fairfax Stone as a common boundary.

• Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan

• Hampshire, Grant, Hardy

• Barbour, Doddridge, Harrison

• Grant, Preston, Tucker

The _____________________________ geographic region is the dividing line between eastern and western Virginia.

• Allegheny Highlands

• Potomac Highlands

• Allegheny Mountains

• Potomac River