Geography Chapter 7: The Southern States
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- the mountain range shared by Tennessee and North Carolina
- The Great Smokies
- a region of the Eastern United States including the Appalachian Mountains, famous for mountain traditions, folk music, arts, crafts, and also poverty
- Appalachia
- the mountain system of Eastern North America extending c. 2,574 km from Eastern Canada to central Alabama
- Appalachian Mountains
- a smaller version of a dome
- knob
- an area of land located at the foot of a mountain or mountain range
- piedmont
- the world's largest cave
- Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
- the road that links Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina
- Linn Cove Viaduct
- a mineral formation that looks like a waterfall flowing down a cave wall
- flowstone drapery
- a hole caused by river erosion
- natural bridge
- cave explorer
- spelunker
- the plateau region of the Eastern United States from New York to Alabama between the Appalachian Mountains and the Atlantic coastal plain
- The Piedmont
- hard coal, the least common of the three types
- anthracite coal
- a broad, rounded mountaintop
- dome
- Kentucky's far west, a part of the low plain that runs along the Mississippi River
- The Purchase
- the region in northern Kentucky along the Ohio River; named for the flower of a local grass
- The Bluegrass
- a huge hole caused by the weathering of rocks
- arch
- the most famous of the flowstone draperies
- Frozen Niagara in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
- a low-grade soft coal mined in West Virginia
- bituminous coal
- the local name for Kentucky's portion of a low interior plateau west of the Cumberland Plateau
- Pennyroyal Plateau
- the rugged region west of the Appalachian Mountains
- Appalachian Plateau
- the type of coal with high moisture content, so burns with less heat and more smoke
- lignite, or "brown" coal
- the only town in the United States that crosses a whole state (the northern panhandle of West Virginia)
- Weirton
- the name of the Appalachian Plateau in Kentucky and Tennessee
- Cumberland Plateau
- a region where water seeping through soft limestone has produced sinkholes, underground streams, and caverns
- karst
- an overhang caused by boulders falling away from the hillside
- rock house
- the name of the Appalachian Plateau in West Virginia
- Allegheny Plateau
- the two main parts of the Appalachian Plateau
- Allegheny and Cumberland Plateaus
- the agency established in 1933 that regulates the Tennessee River and its tributaries in seven states
- Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)