Geography of Virginia

Mrs. Hammersley's 4th Grade

How many of these questions can you answer about Virginia's geography?

Answers are at the end of each question. Highlight the area just after the word Answer with the cursor.

1. What are the five states that border Virginia?
Answer:North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Maryland

2. Which body of water separates the Eastern Shore peninsula from the mainland of the Coastal Plain (Tidewater) Region?
Answer:Chesapeake Bay

3. Which four rivers flow into the Chesapeake Bay?
Answer:James River, York River, Rappahannock River, and the Potomac River

4. Which state is to the south of Virginia?
Answer: North Carolina

5. What are the five regions of Virginia?
Answer:Coastal Plain (Tidewater), Piedmont, Valley and Ridge, Blue Ridge Mountains, and Appalachian Plateau

6. What is the western most region?
Answer:Appalachian Plateau

7. In which region are Virginia's coal fields found?
Answer:Appalachian Plateau

8. What is the wetland area in the Coastal Plain (Tidewater) Region?
Answer:Great Dismal Swamp

9. What is the main route for the westward movement through Virginia's mountains?
Answer:Cumberland Gap

10. What is the border that separates the Coastal Plain (Tidewater) and Piedmont Regions?
Answer:the Fall Line

11. What large body of water borders the city of Virginia Beach?
Answer:Atlantic Ocean

12. What is the eastern most boundary of Virginia?
Answer:Atlantic Ocean

13. What is the highest point of elevation in Virginia?
Answer:Mt. Rogers

14. What river separates the capital of the United States from Virginia?
Answer:Potomac River

15.Which two regions in Virginia are divided by the Fall Line?
Answer:Coastal Plain (Tidewater) Region and Piedmont Region

16. Which region is best described as rolling hills covering much of a plateau?
Answer:Piedmont Region

17. Which region would best be described as a coastal plain?
Answer:Coastal Plain (Tidewater) Region

18. Which major mountain range includes both the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Allegheny Mountains?
Answer:Appalachian Mountains

19.Which region is best described as a line of hills or mountains with valleys?
Answer:Valley and Ridge Region

20. Which peninsula forms the eastern most portion of Virginia?
Answer:Eastern Shore

21. Which region includes the Cumberland Gap?
Answer:Valley and Ridge Region

22. Which river runs from the western part of Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay?
Answer:James River