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First Semester Final
Review
What term describes where
a place is as compared to
other places?
Relative location
What is a long narrow strip
of a larger territory?
Panhandle
West Virginia boundary
rivers
Ohio
Big Sandy
Tug Fork
North Branch
Potomac
What county in West
Virginia has the most
precipitation?
Randolph
What rock formation in
Pendleton County rises
1000 feet above sea level?
Seneca Rocks
Four Regions of West Virginia
Ohio River Valley
Allegheny Plateau
Allegheny Highlands
Potomac Section
WV Climate
humid continental
County with most
precipitation
Randolph
WV's best-known waterfall
Blackwater Falls
WV state fish
Brook Trout
WV’s only natural lake
Trout Pond, in Hardy County
WV rivers that flow west
carry water to
Mississippi River and Gulf of
Mexico
Where the Little Kanawha
meet the Ohio
Parkersburg
An area that is bound by
common characteristics is
what theme of geography?
Region
WV Geographic Regions
Potomac Section
Allegheny Highlands
Allegheny Plateau
Ohio River Valley
Where is the highest point
in the state?
Spruce Knob
Where is the lowest point in
the state?
Harper’s Ferry
What city in the
Allegheny Plateau is
one-quarter Italian?
Clarksburg
What large city is in
the Allegheny
Highlands?
Beckley
Which region has apple
orchards as a major
industry?
Potomac Section
someone who travels away
from home to another place
and who does not plan to
stay permanently in the new
location.
tourist
Who were the earliest
primitive hunters of the
prehistoric period?
Paleo
studies the origin,
development, customs,
and beliefs of humans
anthropologist
Culture that followed the
Paleo Indians, gatherers,
not only hunters
Archaic
Place of white stone or
the River of Evil Spirits
Kanawha
What was the
powerful union of
Indian tribes?
Iroquois
What is the largest
earthen mound east of
the Mississippi River?
Grave Creek
What is the location of
the second largest
mound?
South Charleston
What county in West
Virginia is named for an
Indian Chief?
Logan
What county in West
Virginia is named for an
Indian tribe?
Mingo
What is a scientist who
studies what is left behind
by ancient peoples?
Archaeologist
Who was the French
explorer that reportedly
crossed from the Great
Lakes to the Ohio River.
LaSalle
Who was the Governor of Virginia
that outfitted a number of
expeditions to expand the area
claimed by Virginia for the
English crown.
Berkeley
What happened to
James Needham?
Killed by Indian John
What distinction does
Gabriel Arthur have?
First to see the Kanawha
River
Who awarded a gift to each
gentleman who accompanied him
across the mountains. The
governor presented each of his
companions with a golden
horseshoe,
Spotswood
What did Thomas
Walker name?
Cumberland Gap
The trail that Christopher
Gist followed later became
known as what?
National Road
Who was the German physician who
between 1669 and 1671 was the first
recorded European to reach the crest
of the Blue Ridge Mountains and
enter what is now West Virginia in the
area near Harpers Ferry.
Lederer
What two English
explorers found the
M.A.N.I. tree?
Batts and Fallam
How could money be
made in Virginia?
Furs and land
What is the county seat
of Calhoun County?
Grantsville
area just beyond the settled
land
frontier
What is the county seat of
Hardy County?
Moorefield
What is the county seat of
Monroe County?
Union
Why was it so important
for common people from
Europe to own land in
America?
They were not allowed to
own land in Europe
One who buys something,
such as land, hoping that it
will increase in value and
provide a profit when sold.
speculator
Preachers that established
regular routes to visit
isolated areas on the
frontier were known as
what?
Circuit riders
Who was the first
permanent European
settler in West Virginia?
Morgan Morgan
Scots who had been forced
to settled in Ireland by
King James I were known
as what?
Scots-Irish
Where did the Pennsylvania
Dutch come from?
Germany
What was the first
settlement west of the
Allegheny Divide?
Draper’s Meadow
These settlers agreed to
work for a period of 7
years for passage to the
New World.
Indentured Servants
What was the most
common pioneer fabric?
Linsey-Woolsey
Where was the Ebenezer
Zane settlement?
Wheeling
Where was the Lewis
Tacket settlement?
St. Albans
The language spoken in
the mountains is
commonly referred to as
what?
Southern Mountain
Dialect
In mountain language
the word "poke" means
what?
A bag
The overall war, mostly
which took place in
Europe, was known as
what war?
Seven Years War
The fighting that took
place in North America
was known as what
war?
French and Indian War
Who was sent on a
diplomatic mission
to Fort LeBoeuf to
ask the French to
leave?
George Washington
What was the French
Fort at the Forks of the
Ohio?
Fort Duquesne
The Forks of the Ohio is
the site of what present
day city?
Pittsburgh
What was the quickly
constructed fort ordered
to be built by George
Washington?
Fort Necessity
Who was the Delaware
Indian that helped cut
the path to the Forks of
the Ohio?
Nemacolin
Mary Draper Ingles was
taken hostage by what
Indian tribe?
Shawnee
Said that settlers in the
colonies could not move
west of the Allegheny
Front
Proclamation of 1763
took up residence in a
hollow tree
at Buckhannon
John and Samuel
Pringle
What was the 14th
Colony to be named?
Vandalia
Who killed Chief Logan’s
family?
Daniel Greathouse
Largest Indian battle in
North America
Battle of Point Pleasant
led the southern troops
Andrew Lewis
led the northern troops
Lord Dunmore
Indian leader at the Battle
of Point Pleasant
Chief Cornstalk
They wore buckskin
cloths, coonskin hats,
rifles, tomahawks, knives,
made good soldiers
“Men from Augusta”
did not want to separate
from Great Britain
Tories or Loyalist
He surprised the Indians
by guiding his horse to
the cliff and forcing it to
jump
Samuel McColloch
“McCulloch’s Leap”
Killed along with Red
Hawk and his son
Elinipsico at Fort
Randolph
Cornstalk
Saved Fort Donnally
Dick Pointer
Saved Fort Henry
Betty Zane
Review all Rivers and
River Cities
Review All Counties
Review All County Seats