WorksheetsGeographic Province and Landscape Regions of NY State
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 40mins
Long Island is part of which New York State landscape region?
Newark Lowlands
Manhattan Prong
Tug Hill Plateau
Atlantic Coastal Plain
Landscapes with a faulted and folded surface bedrock structure, steep slopes, and high elevations are classified as
mountains
lowlands
plains
plateaus
The only dinosaur fossils found in New York State are tracks found on 210-million-year-old bedrock. Which New York State landscape region were these dinosaur fossils found?
Tug Hill Plateau
Newark Lowlands
Allegheny Plateau
Adirondack Mountains
Which chart best describes the landscape category and the general bedrock structure, type, and composition of New York State’s Catskills?
A
B
C
D
The Catskills of New York State are best described as a plateau, while the Adirondacks are best described as mountains. Which factor is most responsible for the difference in landscape classification of these two regions?
climate variations
bedrock structure
vegetation type
bedrock age
In which landscape region are New York State’s Finger Lakes primarily located?
Adirondack Mountains
Allegheny Plateau
Atlantic Coastal Plain
Erie-Ontario Lowlands
The Adirondacks are classified as mountains because of the high elevation and bedrock that consists mainly of
deformed and intensely metamorphosed rocks
glacial deposits of unconsolidated gravels, sands, and clays
Cambrian and Ordovician quartzites and marbles
horizontal sedimentary rocks of marine origin
Which two New York State landscape regions have surface bedrock that formed about 1000 million years ago?
Hudson Highlands and Adirondack Mountains
Erie-Ontario Lowlands and Atlantic Coastal Plain
Tug Hill Plateau and Allegheny Plateau
Newark Lowlands and Manhattan Prong
During which period in geologic history did the dome-like uplift of Adirondack region begin?
Quaternary
Cretaceous
Triassic
Cambrian
The surface bedrock in the Hudson Highlands consists mostly of:
diabases, dolostones, and granites
slates, siltstones, and basalts
gneisses, quartzites, and marbles
limestones, shales, sandstones, and conglomerates
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
The photograph below shows index fossil shells found in bedrock in New York State. These index fossil shells were most likely found in the surface bedrock of which landscape region?
Adirondack Mountains
the Catskills
Atlantic Coastal Plain
Tug Hill Plateau
Which two locations are found in the same geographic province?
Albany and Old Forge
Elmira and Riverhead
Jamestown and Slide Mountain
Massena and Mount Marcy
The cross section in the picture shows the general bedrock structure of an area containing three different landscape regions, A, B, and C.
Which list correctly identifies the type of landscapes represented by letters A, B, and C?
A = plain, B = plateau, C = mountain
A = mountain, B = plateau, C = plain
A = mountain, B = plain, C = plateau
A = plateau, B = plain, C = mountain
The map in the diagram shows the location of Grenville -age bedrock found in the northeastern United States.
In which New York State landscapes is Grenville-age bedrock exposed at Earth’s surface?
Erie-Ontario Lowlands and Champlain Lowlands
Catskills and Allegheny Plateau
Tug Hill Plateau and Atlantic Coastal Plain
Hudson Highlands and Adirondack Mountains
The map in the diagram shows watershed regions of New York State.
On which type of landscape region are both the Susquehanna-Chesapeake and the Delaware watersheds located?
plain
plateau
mountain
lowland
Which cross section best represents a plateau landscape region?
A
B
C
D
The aerial photograph shows an elongated hill near the Finger Lakes formed by deposition in New York State.
The elongated hill is best identified as a
kettle lake
moraine
sand dune
drumlin
The aerial photograph shows small, circular bodies of water surrounded by sediment in an area that was once covered by glaciers.
These bodies are water are known as
Finger Lakes
Kettle Lakes
Drumlins
Outwash Plains
The drawing shows a glacial erratic, a rock that has been moved by a glacier and left on the beach of the north shore of Long Island. This boulder is composed of 1000 million year gneiss.
Which New York State landscape region has a surface bedrock similar in age to this erratic?
Hudson Highlands
Atlantic Coastal Plain
Tug Hill Plaeau
Mohawk River Valley
