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The beginning of a river. The Hudson begins in the Adirondack Mountains.

What is the source of a river?

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Moving goods or people from one place to another.

What is transportation?

100

Any river that flows into a larger river. The largest one of the Hudson River is the Mohawk River.

What is a tributary?

100

The place where a river empties into a larger body of water.

What is mouth?

100

Part of an ocean or lake that cuts deeply into the coast or shore.

What is a bay?

200

The land next to an ocean or large lake.

What is coast?

200

A sheltered place where ships can dock?

What is a harbor?

200

Shapes that make up the surface of the earth.

What are landforms?

200

The way people, animals, and humans live on and use the land. The study of Earth.

What is geography?

200

A large area of nearly flat land.

What is a plain?

300

Water surrounded by land.

What is a lake?

300

A huge sheet of ice that moves slowly across the land.

What is a glacier?

300

A landmass that rises well above its surrounding area, generally with steep and rocky sides toward the top.

What is a mountain?

300

A large body of salt water.

What is an ocean?

300

The low land between hills or mountains, often with a river at the bottom.

What is a valley?

400
A line that people agree on that divides one place from another.

What is a border?

400

Land completely surrounded by water.

What is an island?

400

Flowing water that empties into a larger body of water.

What is a river?

400
A large flat area that rises steeply above the surrounding land.

What is a plateau?

400

The pattern of weather of a certain place over many years.

What is climate?

500

The country that borders New York to the north.

What is Canada?

500

The five states that border New York?

What are Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey?

500

The largest river in New York that begins in the Adirondack Mountains and empties into the Atlantic Ocean?

What is the Hudson River?

500

The state capital of New York?

What is Albany?

500

You are here if you travel to the eastern most part of New York.

Where is Montauk?