Landforms
Bodies of Water
Cities
Maps
Geography Terms
100
A landform with steep sides and comes to a peak.
What is a mountain?
100
This is where a river empties or ends.
What is the mouth?
100
The capital of New York.
What is Albany?
100
A country that borders New York to the North.
What is Canada?
100
The study of the Earth and the way people, plants, and animals live on and use land.
What is geography?
200
A huge sheet of ice that moves slowely acros the land.
What is a glacier?
200
This is a water "highway" that stretches over 300 miles and has been used as a transportation route for thousands of years.
What is the Hudson River?
200
The city furthest west in New York.
What is Buffalo, New York.
200
The main directions on a map: north, south, east, and west.
What are cardinal directions?
200
Something found from the environment that we can use.
What is a natural resource?
300
A large, nearly flat area, that rises shortly above the ground around it.
What is a plateau?
300
This is a tributary of the Hudson River that meets in Cohoes Falls, New York.
What is the Mohawk River?
300
The largest and most economically important city in New York State.
What is New York City.
300
A line that people agree on that divides one place from another.
What is a border?
300
The careful use of a natural resource.
What is conservation?
400
This is an event in the Earth's past that helped shape New York's land.
What is the Ice Age?
400
The name of this region comes from several long, thin lakes that lie in a row.
What are the Finger Lakes?
400
This area is made up of Albany, Troy, and Schenectady.
What is the tri-city area?
400
A mountain range that is makes up of 6,000,000 acre park and is located in the northeast area of New York.
What are the Adirondack Mountains?
400
A natural resource that can be replaced.
What is a renewable resource?
500
This is the name of the low land between the hills or mountains along the Hudson River.
What is the Hudson River Valley?
500
This is where Lake Ontario and Lake Erie meet.
What is Niagara Falls?
500
The way a country or other places uses or produces natural resources, goods, and services.
What is economy?
500
These are two states that border New York.
What are Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, and/or New Jersey.
500
These are two reasons why the Adirondack Region is important to us.
What is Logging, Tourism, Conservation, Natural Resources (Water and Oxygen), and/or History.
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