Vocabulary
Landforms
Bodies of Water
Climate
Vocabulary
100
shapes that make up the surface of the Earth
What are landforms?
100
the event in Earth's past that helped shape New York's land
What is the Ice Age?
100
the difference between the mouth of a river and its source
What is the mouth is the end of the river and the source is where it begins?
100
Rain, sleet, snow and hail
What is precipitation?
100
a flat or nearly flat piece of land
What is a plain?
200
thick sheet of ice
What is a glacier?
200
the easternmost post of New York
What is Montauk Point?
200
the pattern of weather a place has over a long time
What is climate?
200
a smaller river that flows into a larger river
What is a tributary?
300
low land between hills or mountains
What is a valley?
300
True or False: A valley usually has a river running through it.
What is true?
300
a large area that rises steeply above the surrounding area
What is a plateau?
400
the study of the Earth
What is geography?
400
this happens to the climate when you move away from the equator
What is it gets cooler?
400
a period of very cold weather that changed the land of New York
What is the ice age?
500
the land that is near an ocean or lake
What is a coast?
500
the three questions you must ask to explore the climate of an area
What are: what is the elevation, how far is it from the coast, and
500
the condition of the air at a certain time and place
What is the weather?
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