vocabulary regions. transportation ways of moving people and goods
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Chapter 2 Vocabulary
Regions
transportationWays of moving people and goods
Population densityThe number of people who live in a unit of
area
plateauA large, high level area of land
textileCloth or fabric made by weaving or knitting
ridgeA line of hills or mountains
barterTo trade goods or services for other goods
and services
Coastal plainA low lying coastal plain that makes up the
eastern most part of Virginia
Fall lineThe area where rivers form waterfalls or
rapids because of a general drop in land’s elevation
Tidewater RegionA flat stretch of land bordering the Atlantic
Ocean
Hampton Roads
Wide harbor at the mouth of the James River on the Chesapeake Bay
Piedmont RegionLong sloping plateau that stretches from the
fall line to the Blue Ridge Mountains
RichmondIndependent city and Virginia's capital
Blue Ridge RegionOld rounded mountains and source of many
rivers.
Allegheny MountainsPart of the Appalachians that runs from
Pennsylvania to Virginia and West Virginia.
Valley and Ridge RegionAn area of western Virginia that includes the
Alleghany Mountains and Great Valley
Cumberland GapA pass though the Appalachian Mountains
where Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee meet.
Daniel BooneFrontier explorer and hunter who helped
blaze a trail across the Appalachians through the Cumberland Gap.
Appalachian PlateauAn elevated woodlands, hollows and gorges
in the far southwestern part of Virginia.