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Map
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Waterways
Landforms
Globes
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What is a border?
An imaginary line that separates one
country or state from another.
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What are the cardinal directions?
north, south, east, and west
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What are Lake Erie and Lake
Ontario?
The two lakes that border New York to the
west.
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What is a landform map?
A map that shows the features of the land.
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What is a source?
The beginning of a river.
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What is a mouth?
The location where a river ends and empties
into a larger body of water.
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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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What is the Mohawk River?
The largest tributary off of the Hudson
River.
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What is a glacier?
A large piece of ice that helped to shape the
land of New York State
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What are mountains?
A type of landform found in NYS. NYS has
three main areas of these.
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What are the Taconic Mountains?
Steep-sided mountains found to the east of
the Hudson River Valley.
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What is the St. Lawrence River?
A river that serves as a border between New
York State and Canada.
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What is the equator?
The name of the line at 0 degrees latitude.
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What is the prime meridian?
A line of longitude that divides the earth
into two hemispheres.
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What are lines of latitude?
Lines that run east to west on a map or
globe.
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What are the seven continents?
North America, South America, Europe,
Africa, Asia, Australia, and Antarctica
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What is geography?
The study of climate, landforms, bodies of
water, and natural resources of a specific
place.
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What is the climate?
The weather pattern of an area over a long
period of time.
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What is the Finger Lakes?
The New York State region that we live in.
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What is a harbor?
A sheltered place for ships to dock.
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