maps And Regions

							Maps and Regions

Virginia is bordered by...

*MD *WV

VA

Chesapeake Bay

* TN

Atlantic Ocean
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* KY

* NC

Virginia has 5 regions.

Valley & Ridge Appalachian Plateau Blue Ridge Mountains

Piedmont

Tidewater

There are many peninsulas in the Tidewater region.
Eastern Shore

What forms a natural border between the Tidewater and Piedmont regions?

There are four major rivers:
Rappahannock Potomac

York James

PLEASE READ YOUR JOURNAL!

Can you name these cities?
Alexandria Fredericksburg Richmond Salem Yorktown

Let’s play

source of many rivers

“land at the foot of the mountains”

low, flat land

Southwest Virginia

rolling hills

elevated land that is flat on top

borders Atlantic Ocean

old, rounded mountains

includes the Great Valley

part of the Appalachian Mountain system

part of the Coastal Plain