VA Studies Review #1

Match the characteristics with the region.

• Elevated flat land

• Appalachian Plateau

• Valleys and Ridges

• Coastal Plain

• Rolling Hills

• Piedmont

• Old, rounded mountains

• Blue Ridge Mountains

• Low & Flat

• Valley & Ridge

The Fall Line is a natural border between the ​ (a)   to the east and the ​ (b)   to the west.

• Piedmont
• Coastal Plains
• Blue Ridge Mountains
• Eastern Shore

You can find ​ (a)   along the James River.

• Richmond
• Yorktown
• Fredericksburg
• Alexandria

Put these events in order based on when they happened in history. (1 being the first thing that happened.)

• African men and women arrived against their will.

• Women arrived to Jamestown.

• Jamestown was established.

• Settlers died of starvation in Jamestown.

What two things do you find along the Fall Line?

• Waterfalls

• Rapids

• Mountains

• Peninsulas

The Eastern Shore is what kind of land formation?

• Mountain

• Island

• Peninsula

• Rolling Hill

Match the language with the Indian tribe.

• Powhatan

• Siouan

• Monacan

• Algonquian

• Cherokee

• Iroquoian

What is the name of the large Indian town used by Chief Powhatan?

• Werowocomoco

• Jamestown

• Yorktown

• Richmond

What is the name of the person that studies artifacts (material evidence) left behind?

• Archaeologist

• Doctor

• Scientist

• Blacksmith

Label the regions of Virginia.

b

c

d

e

a

Piedmont

Appalachian Plateau

Blue Ridge Mountains

Valley & Ridge

Coastal Plain