Vocabulary
the measure of how hot or cold it is
What is temperature?
Why were most of New York's largest cities built near rivers
Which city has a busy harbor that is important to its growth?
What is New York City?
Describe the location in New York (continent, country, region, and hemisphere)
What is....northern hemisphere, North America, United States of America, and North Eastern region?
the way people use resources to produce goods and services
What is economy?
What is the Catskills?
What is waterfalls?
Why are trees a renewable resource?
huge, slow-moving sheets of ice
What is glaciers?
What is an advantage of New York's variety of weather?
In what way does New York protect its land?
What is saving millions of acres as state forests in the Adirondack and Catskill mountains?
Explain the difference between weather and climate.
Weather is changes everyday where as climate changes of a large number of years.
half of Earth's land and water
What is hemisphere?
What is a landform in New York?
What is one way that New Yorker's are trying to conserve resources?
What is recycling?
Describe 3 natural resources of New York and how each has contributed to the states economy.
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Which of these cities get "lake-effect" snow?
Buffalo
New York City
Poughkeepsie
Binghamton
What is Buffalo?
What mountains are North of Albany?
What is the Adirondack Mountains?
Which of the following regions is the farthest South?
Central New York, Catskills, Metro New York and Long Island, or Lower Hudson Valley
What is the Metro New York and Long Island region?
What are the two largest tourist attractions in New York?