1. NYS Geography
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3. 1
What is a border?
An imaginary line that separates one country or state from another.
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4. 2 What are the cardinal directions? north, south, east, and west
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5. 3 What are Lake Erie and Lake Ontario?
The two lakes that border New York to the west.
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6. 4 What is a landform map? A map that shows the features of the land.
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7. 1 What is a source? The beginning of a river. Click here for answer
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8. 2
What is a mouth?
The location where a river ends and empties into a larger body of water.
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9. 3 What is the Genesee River?
The body of water that flows across western New York, through the city of Rochester and empties into Lake Ontario.
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10. 4 What is the Mohawk River?
The largest tributary off of the Hudson River.
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11. 1
What is a glacier?
A large piece of ice that helped to shape the land of New York State
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12. 2
What are mountains?
A type of landform found in NYS. NYS has three main areas of these.
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13. 3 What are the Taconic Mountains?
Steep-sided mountains found to the east of the Hudson River Valley.
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14. 4 What is the St. Lawrence River?
A river that serves as a border between New York State and Canada.
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15. 1 What is the equator? The name of the line at 0 degrees latitude.
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16. 2 What is the prime meridian?
A line of longitude that divides the earth into two hemispheres.
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17. 3 What are lines of latitude?
Lines that run east to west on a map or globe.
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18. 4 What are the seven continents?
North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Antarctica
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19. 1
What is geography?
The study of climate, landforms, bodies of water, and natural resources of a specific place.
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20. 2
What is the climate?
The weather pattern of an area over a long period of time.
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21. 3 What is the Finger Lakes? The New York State region that we live in.
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22. 4 What is a harbor? A sheltered place for ships to dock.
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