Vocabulary
Regions
transportation
 Ways of moving people and goods
Population density
 The number of people who live in a unit of area
plateau
 A large, high level area of land
textile
 Cloth or fabric made by weaving or knitting
ridge
 A line of hills or mountains
barter
 To trade goods or services for other goods and services
Coastal plain
 A low lying coastal plain that makes up the eastern
most part of Virginia
Fall line
 The area where rivers form waterfalls or rapids because
of a general drop in land’s elevation
Tidewater Region
 A flat stretch of land bordering the Atlantic Ocean
Hampton Roads
 Wide harbor at the mouth of the James River on the
Chesapeake Bay
Piedmont Region
 Long sloping plateau that stretches from the fall line to
the Blue Ridge Mountains
Richmond
 Independent city and Virginia's capital
Blue Ridge Region
 Old rounded mountains and source of many rivers.
Allegheny Mountains
 Part of the Appalachians that runs from Pennsylvania
to Virginia and West Virginia.
Valley and Ridge Region
 An area of western Virginia that includes the
Alleghany Mountains and Great Valley
Cumberland Gap
 A pass though the Appalachian Mountains where
Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee meet.
Daniel Boone
 Frontier explorer and hunter who helped blaze a trail
across the Appalachians through the Cumberland Gap.
Appalachian Plateau
 An elevated woodlands, hollows and gorges in the far
southwestern part of Virginia.