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geography | the study of the earth and everything in it |
New York shares borders with... | five states and the country of Canada |
Many of New York's landforms were formed by_______________ duting the last ice age. | glaciers |
Five states New York borders are... | Vermont, Masachussetts,Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania |
What mountains cover most of northern New York? | Adirondack |
What is the Eastern most point in New york state? | Montauk Point |
The north shore of New York is ___________, while he south shore is_______________. | jagged and rocky, sandy beach |
landform | any of the shapes that make up the earth's surface |
plain | a large area of flat or nearly flat land |
geography | the study of earth and the way people, plants, and animals live on and use it |
border | a line that people agree on that divides one place from another |
plateau | a large area that rises steeply above the surrounding land |
valley | the low land between hills or muntains, often with a river at the bottom |
Ice Age | a period of time when earth was much colder than it is today |
glacier | a huge sheet of ice that moves slowly across the land |
moraine | a line of low hills formed by the rocks pushed at the front of a glacier |
till | soil and rocks dropped by a glacier |
drumlin | a smoothly rounded hill formed by a melting glacier |