Landscapes

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

• Hudson Highlands

• Manhattan Prong

• the Catskills

• Taconic Mountains

Which two cities are located in the Interior Lowlands?

• Elmira and Binghamton

• Riverhead and New York City

• Massena and Old Forge

• Buffalo and Watertown

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

• low elevations and mostly faulted or folded bedrock

• low elevations and mostly horizontal bedrock

• high elevations and mostly faulted or folded bedrock

• moderate elevations and mostly horizontal bedrock

Which type of surface bedrock is most commonly found in New York State's Tug Hill Plateau region?

• intrusive igneous rock layers

• extrusive igneous rock layers

• horizontal sedimentary rock layers

• faulted metamorphic rock layers

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

• Tug Hill Plateau

• Adirondack Mountains

• St. Lawrence Lowlands

• Champlain Lowlands

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?

• average annual temperature

• average annual precipitation

• bedrock structure

• soil characteristics

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

• bedrock structure and elevation

• bedrock type and index fossils

• latitude and longitude

• climate and topography

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?

• plateau-plain-mountain

• plateau-mountain-plain

• plain-mountain-plain

• mountain-plain-plateau

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

• an arid region that experienced mostly uplifting forces

• an arid region that experienced mostly erosional forces

• a humid region that experienced mostly uplifting forces

• a humid region that experienced mostly erosional forces

Base your answer on the geologic cross section and the table. The cross section represents the bedrock structure beneath four landscape regions, A, B, C, and D. 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