Vocabulary
Regions
Lakes/Waterways
Natural Resources
100
An area with common features that set it apart from other areas.
What is a region?
100
This is the region of the United States that New York is located in.
What is the northeast?
100
This is the longest river in New York.
What is the Hudson River?
100
This natural resource gave Syracuse a nickname.
What is salt?
200
One of Earth’s seven great bodies of land.
What is a continent?
200
This is the region of New York that has the most people.
What is Metro-New York and Long Island?
200
These two lakes produce 'lake-effect' snow.
What are Lake Erie and Lake Ontario?
200
Trees are considered this type of resource.
What is a natural resource?
300
Something found in nature that people can use.
What is a natural resource?
300
This is the region Niagara Falls is located in.
What is Western New York?
300
This is what affected the waterways and landforms of New York, creating valleys, plateaus, and peaks.
What is a glacier?
300
These are ways New Yorkers take care of their natural resources. (List at least 2).
What are conservation, other sources of energy (wind, sun, geothermal, water), recycling, preventing pollution?
400
The amount of moisture that falls as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
400
This is the region that boarders Lake Erie.
What is Western New York?
400
This is how ships from the Atlantic Ocean get to places north of New York City.
What is the Hudson River?
400
This is an industry early residents of NYC worked in.
What is shipping and trading?
500
The careful use of natural resources.
What is conservation?
500
This is the largest region in New York.
What is the Adirondacks Region?
500
This is why there is so much precipitation in Western New York.
What is air flowing over the surface of the lakes and picking up moisture?
500
This is the climate of New York.
What is it ranges from region to region.
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