Landforms
Vocab Words
Cities
Maps
Geography Terms
100
A landform with steep sides and comes to a peak.
What is a mountain?
100
This is where a river empties or ends.
What is the mouth?
100
The capital of New York.
What is Albany?
100
A country that borders New York to the North.
What is Canada?
100
The study of the Earth and the way people, plants, and animals live on and use land.
What is geography?
200
A huge sheet of ice that moves slowely acros the land.
What is a glacier?
200

The degree or intensity of heat present

What is temperature?

200
The city furthest west in New York.
What is Buffalo, New York.
200
The main directions on a map: north, south, east, and west.
What are cardinal directions?
200
Something found from the environment that we can use.
What is a natural resource?
300
A large, nearly flat area, that rises shortly above the ground around it.
What is a plateau?
300

Imaginaryines that run vertically and measure east and west of the Prime Meridian

What is a line of longitude?

300
The largest and most economically important city in New York State.
What is New York City.
300
A line that people agree on that divides one place from another.
What is a border?
300
The careful use of a natural resource.
What is conservation?
400
The name of this region comes from several long, thin lakes that lie in a row.
What are the Finger Lakes?
400

The imaginary line that separates the Earth into the Eastern and Western hemispheres

What is the Prime Meridian?

400

The 5 major cities in New York

What is Buffalo, Rochester, New York City, Syracuse, Albany?

400
A mountain range that is makes up of 6,000,000 acre park and is located in the northeast area of New York.
What are the Adirondack Mountains?
400
A natural resource that can be replaced.
What is a renewable resource?