Landscapes & NYS Landscape Regions

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

• Hudson Highlands

• the Catskills

• Manhattan Prong

• Taconic Mountains

The diagram below shows two landscapes, A and B.

The difference in appearance of these two landscapes was caused mainly by a difference in the

• Rock type

• Rock structure

• Amount of uplift

• Climate

Which two factors have the most influence on the development of landscape features?

• bedrock structure and climate variations

• rate of erosion and fossils in the bedrock

• bedrock age and weathering rates

• rate of deposition and thickness of the bedrock

New York's Tug Hill landscape region is classified as a plateau because this region has a high elevation with nearly horizontal layers of bedrock

• high elevation with distorted bedrock

• low elevation with distorted bedrock

• low elevation with nearly horizontal layers of

  bedrock

• high elevation with nearly horizontal layers of

  bedrock

The maps below labeled A, B, and C, show three different stream drainage patterns.

Which factor is primarily responsible for causing these three different drainage patterns?

• bedrock structure

• amount of precipitation

• stream discharge

• prevailing winds

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

• Champlain Lowlands

• St. Lawrence Lowlands

• Adirondack Mountains

• Tug Hill Plateau

The graph below shows the growth of the world's human population in the past 400 years.

Compared to the rate at which the world's population increased between 1600 and 1700, the rate of increase from 1900 to the present has been

• slower, only

• faster, only

• the same

• first faster, then slower

Base your answer to the following question on the map below, which shows a portion of the continent of North America and outlines the Mississippi River watershed. Points A, B, C, D, and E represent locations on Earth's surface.

Which landform is produced at location E where the Mississippi River enters the Gulf of Mexico?

• an escarpment

• an outwash plain

• a delta

• a drumlin

The surface bedrock of Mt. Marcy, New York, is composed primarily of which rock?

• hornfels

• anorthosite

• Marble

• Quartzite

The map below shows a stream drainage pattern where the streams radiate outward from the center.

Which landscape feature would produce this stream drainage pattern?

• steep cliff

• volcanic mountain

• flat plain

• glacial kettle lake