NYS Landscapes (ESRT)

Which type of surface bedrock is most commonly found in the Utica, New York area?

• sedimentary, with limestone, shale, sandstone, and dolostone

• sedimentary, with limestone, shale, sandstone, and conglomerate

• metamorphic, with quartzite, dolostone, marble, and schist

• metamorphic, with gneiss, quartzite, marble, and slate

The Catskills are commonly called mountains, but are actually part of the Allegheny Plateau. The Catskills are classified as a plateau because of their

• low elevation

• bedrock structure

• bedrock age

• high degree of metamorphism

The only dinosaur fossils found in New York State are footprints found on 210-million-year old bedrock. In which New York State landscape region were these dinosaur fossils found?

• Newark Lowlands

• Tug Hill Plateau

• Allegheny Plateau

• Adirondack Mountains

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Which types of surface bedrock are most likely found near Jamestown, New York?

• slate and marble

• basalt and limestone

• shale and sandstone

• granite and sandstone

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Which two cities are located in the Atlantic Coastal Plains?

• Albany and Utica

• Syracuse and Oswego

• Stony Brook and Watertown

• Riverhead and South Huntington

If water is flowing from South to North over a waterfall, over several thousand years, which direction will the structure of the waterfall itself move?

• North

• South

• East

• Weast

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Which landscape region is a flat plain consisting mainly of unsorted clays, gravels, sands, scratched pebbles, boulders, and cobbles?

• The Manhattan Prong

• The Adirondacks

• The Catskills

• Long Island

Which stream pattern will occur over a relatively flat surface with loose, unconsolidated sediments?

• Annular

• Trellis

• Dendritic

• Radial

Which climate conditions most likely produce a landscape with rounded hills, large river valleys with many tributaries, and tropical vegetation?

• Cool and humid

• Cool and dry

• Warm and dry

• Warm and humid

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Which statement best explains why 18,000 years ago the coastline was at a different location than it is today?

• North America had just separated from Africa, and the Atlantic Ocean was forming.

• The east coast of North America was being subducted under the Eurasian Plate

• large amount of Earth's water was stored in large continental ice sheets.

• The climate of Earth was extremely hot and dry.

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