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Regions of
Virginia
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Coastal Plain (Tidewater)
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Coastal Plain (Tidewater): VS.2b
Fall Line
Coastal Plain (Tidewater):
The Fall Line
Piedmont
Coastal Plain
This satellite image clearly shows the fall line. Can you see it?
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flat land
Coastal Plain (Tidewater): VS.2b
located near the Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake
Bay
Coastal Plain (Tidewater):
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anti
c O
cean
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includes the Eastern Shore
Coastal Plain (Tidewater):
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anti
c O
cean
Eastern Shore
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The Eastern Shore is a peninsula
bordered by the Chesapeake Bay to the west and
the Atlantic Ocean to the east.
Coastal Plain (Tidewater):
Atl
anti
c O
cean
Eastern Shore
A peninsula is a piece of land bordered by water on three sides.
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east of the Fall Line
Coastal Plain (Tidewater):
Tide
wat
er
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Piedmont
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Piedmont: VS.2b
Fall Line
Piedmont:
The Fall Line
Piedmont
Coastal Plain
This satellite image clearly shows the fall line. Can you see it?
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rolling hills
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west of the Fall Line
Piedmont:
Pied
mon
t
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Piedmont:
means “land at the foot of the mountains”
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Blue Ridge Mountains
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Blue Ridge Mountains:
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old rounded mountains
Blue Ridge Mountains:
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Blue Ridge Mountains:
part of the Appalachian
mountain system
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Blue Ridge Mountains:
Piedmont
Ridge and Valley
Blue Ridge Mts
located between the Piedmont and the Valley
and Ridge regions
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source of many rivers
Blue Ridge Mountains:
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Valley and Ridge
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Valley and Ridge: VS.2b
Includes the Great Valley and Ridge and other valleys separated by