Land and Water
The land and many of the lakes of New York were shaped by
glaciers
Something found in nature that people can use
natural resource
Half of a sphere and Earth can be divided in half two ways
The water that falls to Earth's surface
Precipitation
An area of low, mostly flat land next to an ocean
coastal plain
High level land areas are called
plateaus
Product
continent
The kind of weather a place has most often
Climate
A town or a small city near a larger city
Suburbs
The level of the ocean's surface is called
sea level
Human made lake that stores water held back by a dam
reservoir
New York is in the _______ region of the United States
Northeast
The measure of how hot or cold the air is
Temperature
8 of every 10 people in New York live in cities, which are called
Urban areas
Group of connected mountains
mountain range
Smaller communities found in the country
rural
An area on Earth with similar features
region
Periods of time with little or no rain
drought
An oval-shaped hill made by a glacier
drumlin
An area of low, mostly flat land next to an ocean
coastal plain
Resources that cannot quickly be made again by nature or by people
nonrenewable
The _____ of a place is where it is when compared to places that are around it
relative location
Cold weather storms named for their strong winds that bring flooding rains or heavy snowfall
Noreasters
A narrow body of water that lies between a mainland and an island
Sound