The highest landform. Has high peaks and low valleys. Must be 969 feet above the land around it.
What is mountains?
100
The way rocks are broken down into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
100
The shaking of the Earth's crust and mantle.
What is an earthquake?
100
Page number of the Bedrock of NY map.
What is page 3
100
How many lab minutes do you need to sit for the Earth Science regents?
What is 1,200 minutes?
200
Long, flat areas bordered on both sides by higher land, hills, or mountains.
What is valleys?
200
The movement of weathered rock and soil
What is erosion?
200
An opening in the Earth's surface from which lava flows.
What is a volcano?
200
What landscape region is Elmira, NY located in?
What is Allegheny Plateau?
200
Long Island is located in what landscape region?
What is Atlantic Coastal Plain?
300
A landform created by uplift and erosion. This landform has horizontal layers. A fairly large flat area of land that is higher than the land around it.
What is Plateau?
300
Roots breaking apart a rock is an example of what type of weathering?
What is physical?
300
A large amount of water that covers normally dry land.
What is flood?
300
In what period were the Adirondacks formed?
What is Middle Protozoic?
300
What are the names of Ms. Noviasky's two dogs? (need to get them both right)
Echo and Gunner
400
A place you would find a meandering stream and horizontal layers.
What is Plain?
400
Soil dropped at the mouth of a river, and is often shaped like triangles.
What is Delta?
400
Causes buildings to shake and possibly collapse.
What is an earthquake?
400
How many million years ago did the Devonian period end?
What is 359 Million years ago?
400
Rolling, green hills are created by this climate, just like we have in NY!
Humid/ Wet
500
The three main types of landscape regions.
What are Mountains, Plateaus, and Plains?
500
Huge sheets of ice
What are glaciers?
500
Moves rich soil from one place to another, making fields good for growing crops.
What are floods?
500
What index fossil would be found in the Allegheny Plateau?