Ny Regions And Waterways

1. New York
Landforms
and
Waterways

2. Landforms
•There are many different type of landforms
in New York.
•There are mountainous landforms like
the Adirondack Mountains.
•There are also plains in New York, areas
where a large amount of land lies flat.

3. Adirondack Mountains

4. More Landforms of New York
•In New York you can also find a plateau
which is an area that rises steeply above
the land.
•A valley is a low piece of land between
hills or mountains.

5. PLATEAU
VALLEY

6. Waterways of
New York
New York has many bodies of
water, from large rivers to small
lakes. They help New York with
communication, transportation,
and transporting goods.
Hudson River

7. The Beginning, Middle, and End!
•All rivers have a source, or a beginning.
•As the river makes it’s journey away from
the source it grows
because it has smaller river and streams
called tributaries that flow into it.
•Like all rivers the Hudson River has an
end, or a mouth, where the water empties
into a large body of water like the Atlantic
Ocean.

8. Hudson River

9. Along the Coast…
•A coast is the land next to an ocean.
Long Island and New York City are at
the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.
•A bay is part of an ocean that cuts
deeply into the shore.
•A harbor is a place where ships
dock.

10. The Coast

11. New York Bay

12. New York Harbor