New York State Geography

Choose an answer from the three choices or True or False offered after each question and then "Check Your Answers" at the end of the quiz.

1)At 5,344 feet, what is the highest point in the state of New York?

• Mount Albany
• Mount Georgia
• Mount Marcy

2) New York covers 54,475 square miles. What does it rank with other states by size?

• 5th largest
• 15th largest
• 27th largest

3) What is NOT a Great Lake that touches New York

• Erie
• Ontario
• Michigan

4) Of the Finger Lakes, which is the longest at 38.1 miles?

• Owasco Lake
• Cayuga Lake
• Seneca Lake

5) What New York mountain range is bordered on the east by Lake Champlain and Lake George, which separate them from the Green Mountains in Vermont?

• Adirondack Mountains
• Catskill Mountains
• Southern Tier Mountains

6) What is the lake that begins the Hudson River?

• Lake Tear of the Clouds
• Lake Winnebago
• Lake Frances

7) What is NOT one of the three islands at the mouth of the Hudson River?

• Manhattan Island
• Long Island
• Short Island

8) At 4,180 feet, what is the highest point in the Catskill Mountains?

• Slide Mountain
• Morgan Mountain
• Humphrey’s Peak

9) The Catskill Mountains are sometimes considered an extension of the Appalachian Mountains into Upstate New York, although they are not geologically related.

• True or False?

10) At Troy, New York, what river flows into the Hudson River?

• Tappan Zee River
• Mohawk River
• St. Lawrence River

Check Your Answers

• 1) Mount Marcy
• 2) 27th largest
• 3) Michigan
• 4) Cayuga Lake
• 5) Adirondack Mountains
• 6) Lake Tear of the Clouds
• 7) Short Island
• 8) Slide Mountain
• 9) True
• 10) Mohawk River

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