Regions/landforms
Bodies of Water
Resources
Seasons
Latitude and Longitude
100
____ is the study of Earth and of the ways people, plants, and animals use it?
What is Geography.
100
Name the two Great Lakes that border New York
Lake Erie and Ontario
100
___ is something found in nature that people can use?
What is a natural resoruce.
100
The condition of air at a certain time and place.
What is weather.
100
Lines on a global grid that run horizontally
What is latitude
200
What was the name of the time in history when New York was covered by glaciers?
What was the Ice Age.
200
What is the name of the River that starts in the Adirondack Mountain Range and ends in ends at New York City near the Atlantic Ocean?
What is the Hudson River
200
What are the two different types of natural resources?
What are renewable and nonrewable resources
200
The pattern of weather in a certain place over many years.
What is climate.
200
Lines on the global grid that run vertically
What is longitude
300
Looking at this map, what region would Buffalo be in?
What is the Western Region.
300
The mohawk river is a ____ of the Hudson River
What is a tributary
300
What is the difference between renewable and nonrenewable resources?
Renewable resources are resources that can be replaced. Nonrenewable resources are resources that cannot be replaced.
300
Measures how hot or cold the air is.
What is temperature.
300
What are latitude lines called?
What are parallels.
400
Name two landforms found in New York.
What is the Hudson river valley, Finger lakes, Taconic Mountains, Catskills, and The Adirondacks
400
The south coast of Long Island is bordered by what body of water?
What is the Atlantic Ocean
400
Name two resources that are important to New York State?
Forests, waterways, fuels, minerals, construction materials (limestone, salt, sand, and gravel).
400
Name two different forms of precipitation.
What is rain, sleet, snow, hale.
400
What are longitude lines called?
What are meridians.
500
Name two landform that glaciers helped to carve.
What are canyons, lakes, and rivers.
500
What are two ways New Yorkers use waterways?
Shipping, transportation, recreation, and trade
500
What is one way to conserve natural resources?
recycling, reusing materials, and reducing the amount of resources being used
500
Name two ways weather and climate affect the people of New York?
They affect the clothes we wear, the activities we do, and where we live and travel to.
500
A unit for measuring the distance of latitude and longitude lines?
What is degrees.