Landscapes

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Which New York State landscape region is composed of mostly horizontal sedimentary bedrock and has a high elevation?

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the Catskills

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Which two cities are located in the Interior Lowlands? Options: Elmira and Binghamton, Riverhead and New York City, Massena and Old Forge, Buffalo and Watertown

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Buffalo and Watertown

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The Catskills landscape region is classified as a plateau because it has

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moderate elevations and mostly horizontal bedrock

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Which type of surface bedrock is most commonly found in New York State's Tug Hill Plateau region? Options: intrusive igneous rock layers, extrusive igneous rock layers, horizontal sedimentary rock layers, faulted metamorphic rock layers

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horizontal sedimentary rock layers

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A plane traveling in a straight line from Watertown to Utica would fly over which landscape region?

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Tug Hill Plateau

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Old Forge and Watertown, located at nearly the same latitude in New York State, have very different landscapes. Which factor is primarily responsible for these landscape differences?

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bedrock structure

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The generalized landscape regions of New York State are classified according to

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bedrock structure and elevation

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Which sequence shows the order in which landscape regions are crossed as an airplane flies in a straight course from Albany, New York, to Massena, New York? Options: plateau-plain-mountain, plateau-mountain-plain, plain-mountain-plain, mountain-plain-plateau

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plain-mountain-plain

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The sequence of bedrock cross sections represents the same landscape region over a period of geologic time. This sequence best represents

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an arid region that experienced mostly erosional forces

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Which terms best describe the surface landscapes of A, B, C, and D? A—mountains, B—ridges and valleys, C—plateau, D—plain; A—plateau, B—plain, C—mountains, D—ridges and valleys; A—plain, B—mountains, C—plateau, D—plain; A—ridges and valleys, B—plateau, C—plain, D—mountains

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A—mountains, B—ridges and valleys, C—plateau, D—plain