WorksheetsVirginia Provinces
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 22mins
In which province is coal mined?
Valley and Ridge
Appalachian Plateau
Blue Ridge
Coastal Plain
The Appalachian Plateau is where coal is mined. Coal forms in what type of rock?
igneous
foliated metamorphic
nonfoliated metamorphic
sedimentary
What can we best infer from the fact that some places have fossils of marine remains?
they are all coastal regions
those places where once underwater
Marine animals once lived on land
the fossils were moved there by people
Going in order from EAST to WEST what are the five Virginia Provinces?
Piedmont, Coastal Plain, Appalachian Plateau, Valley and Ridge
Valley and Ridge, Blue Ridge, Appalachian Plateau, Piedmont
Appalachian Plateau, Valley and Ridge, Blue Ridge, Piedmont, Coastal Plain
Coastal Plain, Piedmont, Blue Ridge, Valley and Ridge, Appalachian Plateau
What type of rock is common in the Valley and Ridge region and is the rock needed to create Karst topography because it can be dissolved by the weak acid of Carbon Dioxide dissolved in water
Sandstone
Granite
Basalt
Limestone
This area of long parallel ridges located just EAST of the Appalachian Plateau is known as the
Piedmont Region
Valley and Ridge Region
Coastal Plain
Blue Ridge Mountains
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