What is the study of Earth
and the ways people use it?
Hills, valleys, and plains are
all examples of?
Answer: geography
Answer: landforms
What is a large, mostly flat
area of high land?
What are the two great lakes
that are found on the border
of New York State are?
Answer: a plateau
Answer: Lake Erie and
Lake Ontario
In what two hemispheres is
New York State found?
In what region of the
United States is New York
found?
Answer: the Western and
Northern hemispheres
In what region of New York
State is Lancaster located?
Answer: the Western
region
Answer: the Northeast
What was it that helped to
carve the valleys, rivers and
lakes found in New York?
Answer: glaciers
What are the materials found
in nature that people can use,
such as trees, water, and soil?
Answer: natural resources
Resources that can be replaced
after they are used, such as
trees are called ___________.
Answer: renewable
resources
What country borders the
United States to the north?
Answer: Canada
What is the description of the
air at a certain time or place?
Answer: weather
Resources found in nature that
cannot be replaced after being
used, such as clay and stone are
called __________.
Answer: nonrenewable
resources
When people use natural
resources carefully so that
they are not destroyed or used
up, that is called __________.
Answer: conservation
What major river flows south
from the Adirondack Mountains
to the Atlantic Ocean?
Answer: the Hudson River
What is the pattern of weather
in a region over a period of
time?
Answer: climate
What are the two major
mountains found in New York?
Answer: the Adirondacks
and the Catskill Mountains
Would stating that it is 85
degrees and sunny be an
example of weather or climate?
Answer: weather
Name at least 3 different
natural wonders that are found
in New York.
Answer: Niagara Falls, Adirondacks,
Hudson River, Long Island, the Finger
Lakes, Catskill Mountains, Montauk
Point
Would stating that the
Adirondacks has cold, snowy
winters and warm, sunny
summers be an example of
weather or climate?
Answer: climate
What ocean surrounds Long
Island?
Answer: the Atlantic
Ocean
If you look outside and it is
snowing, what part of weather
are you describing?
Answer: precipitation
What is an example of a
nonrenewable resource?
Answer: oil, gas, clay,
stone
What is an example of a
renewable resource?
Answer: trees, water