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The study of Earth
What is geography?
100
A period of very cold weather.
What is Ice Age?
100
Smoothly rounded hills that look like an egg sliced in half along its length.
What are drumlins?
100
Smaller river or stream that flows into a larger river.
What is a tributary?
100
The land next to an ocean or large lake.
What is coast?
200
Shapes that make up the surface of Earth.
What are landforms?
200
A thick sheet of ice.
What is a glacier?
200
Moving goods or people from one place to another.
What is transportation?
200
This river flows from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario.
What is the Niagara River?
200
A part of an ocean or lake that cuts deeply into the coast or shore.
What is harbor?
300
A large area of nearly flat land.
What is a plain?
300
A line of low hills formed by the rocks pushed at the front
What is a moraine?
300
New York's longest river.
What is the Hudson River?
300
Two of the Great Lakes that border New York State. They are part of the great transportation route.
What are Lake Erie and Lake Ontario?
300
A pattern of weather over many years.
What is climate?
400
A large area that rises steeply above the surrounding land.
What is a plateau?
400
A Lake that was filled from the melting glacier.
What is Lake Oneida?
400
The beginning of a river.
What is the source?
400
This river empties into the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the St. Lawrence River?
400
The condition of the air at a certain time and place, this changes day-to-day.
What is weather?
500
The low land between hills or mountains, often with a river at the bottom.
What is a valley?
500
A mix of soil and rocks that was dropped by the glacier as the ice melted.
What is till?
500
The end of a river.
What is the mouth?
500
This lake forms a border between New York and Vermont.
What is Lake Champlain?
500
Climate is affected by these three questions.
What is... How high? How far north? How far from water?
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