Jeopardy Tidewater Piedmont Blue Ridge Valley Ridge Appalachian

Jeopardy Tidewater Piedmont Blue Ridge Valley & Ridge Appalachian Plateau Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $300 Q $300 Q $400 Q $400 Q $500 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from Tidewater How did the Tidewater Region get its name?

$100 Answer from Tidewater Because the ocean water runs UP river with the tides causing the water to be a mixture of salt and fresh - brackish

$200 Question from Tidewater What word means “the moving of people or goods? ”

$200 Answer from Tidewater TRANSPORTATION

$300 Question from Tidewater The Tidewater is part of what large area of land that runs along the Atlantic Coast?

$300 Answer from Tidewater The Coastal Plain

$400 Question from Tidewater What Tidewater city relies on Tourism as its major industry?

$400 Answer from Tidewater Virginia Beach

$500 Question from Tidewater What harbor is found where the Chesapeake Bay, Atlantic Ocean, and the James River meet?

$500 Answer from Tidewater Hampton Roads

$100 Question from Piedmont The Piedmont lies atop what type of landform?

$100 Answer from Piedmont A plateau

$200 Question from Piedmont What does the word “Piedmont” mean?

$200 Answer from Piedmont Land at foot of mountains

$300 Question from Piedmont Name 3 Piedmont cities.

$300 Answer from Piedmont Danville, Charlottesville, Richmond

$400 Question from Piedmont Thomas Jefferson founded the ______ in Charlottesville.

$400 Answer from Piedmont University of Virginia

$500 Question from Piedmont Name a Virginia city that lies on the Potomac River.

$500 Answer from Piedmont Alexandria or Arlington

$100 Question from Blue Ridge What is a ridge?

$100 Answer from Blue Ridge Line of Mountains or Hills

$200 Question from Blue Ridge The Blue Ridge Mountains are part of what mountain System?

$200 Answer from Blue Ridge The Appalachian

$300 Question from Blue Ridge What is the tallest peak in the Blue Ridge Mountains?

$300 Answer from Blue Ridge Mount Rogers

$400 Question from Blue Ridge What scenic road runs through Shenandoah National Park?

$400 Answer from Blue Ridge Skyline Drive

$500 Question from Blue Ridge What path, which stretches from Maine To Georgia, passes through the Blue Ridge Mountains?

$500 Answer from Blue Ridge Appalachian Trail

$100 Question from Valley & Ridge What mountains form part of Virginia’s Border with West Virginia?

$100 Answer from Valley & Ridge Allegheny

$200 Question from Valley & Ridge What valley lies in the northernmost part of the Valley of Virginia?

$200 Answer from Valley & Ridge Shenandoah

$300 Question from Valley & Ridge Massanutten Mountain is a 50 mile long ____that splits the Valley.

$300 Answer from Valley & Ridge barrier

$400 Question from Valley & Ridge Name 2 natural wonders in the Valley and Ridge.

$400 Answer from Valley & Ridge Natural Bridge, Luray Caverns, Endless Caverns, Grand Caverns, Natural Tunnel, Natural Chimney

$500 Question from Valley & Ridge What is the largest city in the Valley and Ridge?

$500 Answer from Valley & Ridge Roanoke

$100 Question from Appalachian Plateau What is the major natural resource from the Appalachian Plateau?

$100 Answer from Appalachian Plateau coal

$200 Question from Appalachian Plateau What is the largest city in the Appalachian Plateau?

$200 Answer from Appalachian Plateau Norton

$300 Question from Appalachian Plateau What are the two ways to remove coal from the ground?

$300 Answer from Appalachian Plateau surface mining strip mining

$400 Question from Appalachian Plateau What does it mean to barter?

$400 Answer from Appalachian Plateau trade WITHOUT money

$500 Question from Appalachian Plateau The Appalachian Plateau is part of what Larger plateau?

$500 Answer from Appalachian Plateau Cumberland

Final Jeopardy Give two reasons that cities grew up along the fall line.

Final Jeopardy Answer 1)Ships couldn’t travel up river 2)Markets for trade formed at the fall line