Land
Water
Climate
MISC.
MISC.
100

What is a line that people agree on that divides one place from another?

Border

100

What is the moving of goods or people from one place to another?

Transportation

100

What is the measurement of how hot or cold something is, often in the air?

Temperature

100

What are any of the shapes that make up Earth's surface?

Landform

100

What body of water surrounds Long Island?

Atlantic Ocean

200

What is a large area of flat or nearly flat land?

Plain

200

What is the place where a river begins?

Source

200

What is a snowstorm with very strong winds?

Blizzard

200

What are two mountain ranges in New York?

Adirondack Mountains and Catskill Mountains

200

What is the study of Earth and the way people, plants, and animals live on and use it?

Geography

300

What is the low land between hills or mountains?

Valley

300

What is the land next to an ocean?

Coast

300

What is the condition of the air at a certain time in a certain place, including temperature, precipitation, and wind?

Weather

300

What is the period of time when Earth was much colder than it is today?

Ice Age

300

What are two examples of precipitation?

Rain, snow, sleet, hail (any two)

400

What is a huge sheet of ice that moves slowly across the land?

Glacier

400

What is the place where a river empties into an ocean, a lake, or a larger river?

Mouth

400

What is the moisture that falls to the ground as rain, snow, sleet, or hail?

Precipitation

400

What is a storm with very strong winds and heavy rains?

Hurricane

400

What is a sheltered place along where boats can dock?

Harbor

500

What is soil and rocks dropped by a glacier called?

Till

500

What is any river that flows into another, larger river?

Tributary

500

What is the pattern of weather of a certain place over many years?

Climate

500

Where is the source of the Hudson River?

High in the Adirondacks

500

What is an example of a tributary and what does it flow into?

Mohawk River into the Hudson River