Vocabulary
Climate and Weather
Resources
N.Y.'s Geography
Landforms
100

an area with common features that set it apart from other areas

What is a region?

100

Temperatures and conditions in a certain place DAY TO DAY

What is weather?

100

Something found in nature that people use

What is a natural resource? 

100

The country New York is located in

The United States of America

100

During this period of time HUGE glaciers moved across the land forming New York State

What was the Ice Age? 

200

Earth has 7 of these great bodies of land

What is a continent

200

The PATTERN of weather in a certain area

What is climate?

200
Resources that make more of themselves (ex. trees, fish, sun, wind)

What are renewable resources? 

200

The ocean that borders New York

What is the Atlantic Ocean?

200

Found in central New York that resemble a body part

What are the Finger Lakes?

300

Half of the Earth's land and water

What is a hemisphere?

300

The surface of the sea (Where the sea meets the land)

What is sea level?

300

Once you use these resources they are all gone (coal, gas, minerals)

What are nonrenewable resources? 

300

The 2 Great Lakes that border New York State to the north

What are Lake Erie and Lake Ontario? 

300

The 2 mountainous regions of New York State that supply lumber for building

What are the Adirondacks Mts and Catskill Mts.?

400

An imaginary line that cuts the Earth in half (northern and southern hemispheres)

What is the equator

400

Rain, sleep, snow and hail are examples of this

What is precipitation? 

400

Name 1 important part of the economy on Long Island

Fishing, tourism, businesses, farming

400
The huge landform in New York that creates energy from moving water. 

What is Niagara Falls? 

400

A deep dip in the earth created by slow-moving glaciers

What is a valley? 

500

The way people use resources to produce goods and services

What is an economy?

500

2 factors that affect temperature in an area

What is the distance from the equator and the elevation above sea level? 

500
Using resources WISELY and only what we need

What is conservation? 

500

The river that flows from north to south through New  York State emptying into the New York Bay (New York City)

What is the Hudson River? 

500

A large sheet of slow-moving ice that changes the land drastically.

What is a glacier?