Vocabulary
an area with common features that set it apart from other areas
What is a region?
Temperatures and conditions in a certain place DAY TO DAY
What is weather?
Something found in nature that people use
What is a natural resource?
The country New York is located in
The United States of America
During this period of time HUGE glaciers moved across the land forming New York State
What was the Ice Age?
Earth has 7 of these great bodies of land
What is a continent
The PATTERN of weather in a certain area
What is climate?
What are renewable resources?
The ocean that borders New York
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Found in central New York that resemble a body part
What are the Finger Lakes?
Half of the Earth's land and water
What is a hemisphere?
The surface of the sea (Where the sea meets the land)
What is sea level?
Once you use these resources they are all gone (coal, gas, minerals)
What are nonrenewable resources?
The 2 Great Lakes that border New York State to the north
What are Lake Erie and Lake Ontario?
The 2 mountainous regions of New York State that supply lumber for building
What are the Adirondacks Mts and Catskill Mts.?
An imaginary line that cuts the Earth in half (northern and southern hemispheres)
What is the equator
Rain, sleep, snow and hail are examples of this
What is precipitation?
Name 1 important part of the economy on Long Island
Fishing, tourism, businesses, farming
What is Niagara Falls?
A deep dip in the earth created by slow-moving glaciers
What is a valley?
The way people use resources to produce goods and services
What is an economy?
2 factors that affect temperature in an area
What is the distance from the equator and the elevation above sea level?
What is conservation?
The river that flows from north to south through New York State emptying into the New York Bay (New York City)
What is the Hudson River?
A large sheet of slow-moving ice that changes the land drastically.
What is a glacier?