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Vocabulary/Miscellaneous
100

What country do we live in? 

United States of America

100
What is a glacier? 

A slow moving sheet of ice that created the mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers of NY

100

What are natural resources?

Things found in nature and are useful to people 

100

What country borders NY in the North?

Canada
100
Define Environment. 

The water, land, and air that surrounds us. 

200

What continent do we live on?

North America 

200

What is a landform?

A natural feature of Earth's surface

200
What are renewable resources? Give 2 examples.

Things that can easily be replaced

Apples, Fish, Cows

200

What city do we live in?

Ogdensburg

200

What is the difference between climate and weather?

Climate -- weather of a place over a long period of time

Weather -- daily 

300
What hemisphere do we live on? 

Western (and Northern)

300

What two Great Lakes border New York State?

Lake Erie 

Lake Ontario

300

What are nonrenewable resources? 

Things that cannot be replaced. 

Oil 

Coal 

300

What state do we live in?

New York State

300

What county do we live in? 

St. Lawrence

400

What does a geographer do? 

A geographer studies geography. They ask questions about where people live, why they live there, and how they use the land around them. 

400

List some rivers in NYS. (at least 2) 

Hudson 

Mohawk

St. Lawrence 

Niagara

400

Examples of flow resources. 

Sunlight, Wind, Water

400

What river is between the US and Canada ?

St. Lawrence River 

400

The climate of an area depends on what three things?

Distance from the equator

The elevation of the land

Distance from a large body of water

500

What region is New York State in?

North Eastern Region of the USA

500

What are two mountain ranges in NYS? 

The Adirondacks 

The Catskills 

500

What are flow resources?

Resources that can only be used in when and where they were/are found. 

500

What state borders NY to the East?

Vermont

500

What does economy mean? 

The way people buy and sell goods/services