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Vocabulary: Water
Vocabulary: Landforms
Bodies of Water
Odds and Ends
100
A pattern of weather of a certain place over a period of time
What is climate?
100
Any river that flows into another, larger river
What is a tributary?
100
A large area of flat or nearly flat land
What is a plain?
100
This river begins in the Adirondack Mountains.
What is the Hudson River?
100
A huge sheet of ice that moves slowly across the land
What is a glacier?
200
A storm with very strong winds and heavy rains
What is a hurricane?
200
The place where a river empties into an ocean, lake, or a larger river
What is the mouth?
200
A large area that rises steeply above the surrounding land
What is a plateau?
200
The Hudson River empties into this body of water.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
200
The country that borders New York State to the north
What is Canada?
300
A snowstorm with very strong winds
What is a blizzard?
300
The place where a river begins
What is the source?
300
The low land between hills or mountains, often with a river at the bottom
What is a valley?
300
This is the source of the Niagara River.
What is Lake Erie?
300
The study of Earth and the way people, plants, and animals live on and use it
What is geography?
400
The moisture that falls to the ground as rain, snow, sleet, or hail
What is precipitation?
400
A part of an ocean or lake that cuts deeply into the land
What is a bay?
400
A line of low hills formed by the rocks pushed at the front of a glacier
What is a moraine?
400
The clue word to remember the names of the Great Lakes.
What is HOMES?
400
A line that people agree on that divides one place from another
What is a border?
500
A measurement of how hot or cold something is, often the air
What is temperature?
500
A sheltered place along a coast where boats can dock
What is a harbor?
500
A smoothly rounded hill formed by a melting glacier
What is a drumlin?
500
The city of Buffalo is located on this lake.
What is Lake Erie?
500
Soil and rocks dropped by a glacier
What is till?