Landscape Regions
What is the landscape region furthest Northeast?
Champlain Lowlands
What geologic period is the bedrock in Elmira from?
Devonian
What is the name of a city underlain by Gypsum?
Geneva, maybe Buffalo
Give the approximate latitude and longitude of the largest oil fields in New York State.
around 78 and 42
Which direction would you have to go to get to Long Island from Albany.
Southeast
This landscape region contains the Adirondack Mountains.
What is the Adirondack Mountains region?
Name two common types of rocks in the area that borders Lake Ontario.
conglomerates, red sandstones, red shales, diabase
Wollastonite can be found nearest to what city on the map?
St. Marcy or Watertown
What kind of rock can be found in Niagara Falls.
carbonate
This landscape region borders Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.
Erie-Ontario Lowlands
Name a city that is on a Finger Lake.
Ithaca or Geneva
The oldest bedrock in New York State is generally found in this region.
What is the Adirondack Mountains?
Name a city near which you can find Bluestone, clay, and cement.
Albany
Large gas fields can be found nearest what city?
Jamestown or Buffalo
Approximately how many kilometers are between Watertown and Oswego?
80
This landscape region lies directly west of the Hudson-Mohawk Lowlands.
What is the Erie-Ontario Lowlands?
This type of bedrock is associated with fossil fuels in New York State.
What is sedimentary rock?
Most metallic mineral resources in New York are located in this part of the state.
What is northern New York/the Adirondacks?
This energy resource is produced using moving water.
hydroelectric energy
If you travel from Buffalo to Albany, the elevation generally ______
increases
This landscape region completely surrounds the Adirondack Mountains.
What is the Hudson-Mohawk Lowlands?
(You could also accept Appalachian Plateau depending on wording/location)
Compared to the bedrock in Long Island, Adirondack bedrock is generally much ______.
older
This resource found in New York is commonly used for road construction and concrete.
crushed stone
Why are fossil fuel resources mostly absent from the Adirondack Mountains?
because the bedrock is mainly metamorphic/igneous and not sedimentary
A student finds folded metamorphic rock and iron ore. They are most likely in this New York State region.
Adirondack Mountains