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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

This is a man made water "highway" that stretches across New York State from Albany to Buffalo.

What is the Erie Canal?

200
The city furthest west in New York.
What is Buffalo, New York.
200

Direction from Rome to Albany.

What is east?

200
Something found from the environment that we can use.
What is a natural resource?
300

A large flat area that rises above the ground around it.

What is a plateau?

300

This is a tributary of the Hudson River that meets in Cohoes Falls, New York.

What is the Mohawk River?

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
This is an event in the Earth's past that helped shape New York's land.
What is the Ice Age?
400
The name of this region comes from several long, thin lakes that lie in a row.
What are the Finger Lakes?
400

Where construction began on the Erie Canal.

What is Rome, New York?

400

A mountain range that is 6,000,000 acres and is located in the northeastern area of New York.

What are the Adirondack Mountains?

400

A natural resource that cannot be replaced.

What is a non-renewable resource?

500

This is the name of the low land area in central New York that includes the cities of Rome and Utica.

What is the Mohawk Valley?

500
This is where Lake Ontario and Lake Erie meet.
What is Niagara Falls?
500

A city or town that the Erie Canal passes through.

What is:  Utica, Rome, Oriskany, Canastota, Syracuse, Rochester, Little Falls, Ilion, Frankfort, Herkimer, Buffalo, Albany, Amsterdam, Brockport, Schenectady?

500
These are two states that border New York.
What are Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, and/or New Jersey.
500

These are two reasons why the Adirondack Region is important to us.

What is Logging, Tourism, Conservation, Natural Resources (Water and Oxygen), and/or History.