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Geography Terms
100
A landform with steep sides and comes to a peak.
What is a mountain?
100

This is where a river begins. 

What is the source?

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 water "highway" that stretches over 300 miles and has been used as a transportation route for thousands of years.
What is the Hudson River?
200
The city furthest west in New York.
What is Buffalo, New York.
200

This is the most southern part of New York. 

What is Long Island?

200

Something found from the environment that we can use and must conserve. 

What is a natural resource?

300
A large, nearly flat area, that rises shortly 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

Oil is found mostly in this part of the state. 

What is western NY?

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

This is one of the largest cities in New York that is in Westchester County. 

What is Yonkers?

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

This natural resource is also the stateā€˜s gem?

What are garnets?

500
This is the name of the low land between the hills or mountains along the Hudson River.
What is the Hudson River Valley?
500

This is where Lake Ontario and Lake Erie meet and is a major source of tourism  

What is Niagara Falls?

500

The way a country or other places uses or produces natural resources, goods, and services to make capital. 

What is economy?

500

These are five states that border New York.

What are Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, and or New Jersey.

500

This is the least populated area of New York. 

What is the Northeast Adirondacks?