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1 Chapter 2 Vocabulary

2 Ways of moving people and goods

3 transportation

4 The number of people who live in a unit of area

5 Population density

6 A large, high-level area of land

7 plateau

8 Cloth or fabric made by weaving or knitting

9 textiles

10 A line of hills or mountains

11 Ridge

12 To trade goods or services for other goods or services

13 barter

14 A flat stretch of land bordering the Atlantic Ocean
A flat stretch of land bordering the Atlantic Ocean. It covers most of the East Coast of the United States, including Virginia’s Tidewater.

15 Coastal plain

16 The area where rivers form waterfalls or rapids because of a general drop in the land’s elevation

17 Fall line

18 IMPORTANT PEOPLE AND PLACES

19 The low-lying coastal plain that makes up the easternmost part of Virginia

20 Tidewater Region

21 Wide harbor at the mouth of the James River on the Chesapeake Bay

22 Hampton Roads

23 Long sloping plateau that stretches from the fall line to the Blue Ridge Mountains

24 Piedmont Region

25 Independent city and Virginia’s capital
Independent city and Virginia’s capital. Located on the James River at the Fall Line.

26 Richmond

27 A mountain range in the eastern part of the Appalachians that stretches from Pennsylvania to Georgia

28 Blue Ridge Mountains

29 An area of western Virginia that includes the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains and the Great Valley

30 Valley and Ridge Region

31 Part of the Appalachians that runs from Pennsylvania to Virginia and West Virginia

32 Allegheny Mountains

33 A pass through the Appalachian Mountains where Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee meet

34 Cumberland Gap

35 Frontier explorer and hunter who helped find a trail across the Appalachians through the Cumberland Gap

36 Daniel Boone

37 An elevated area of woodlands, hollows and gorges in the far southwestern part of Virginia

38 Appalachian Plateau


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