Earth Science Regents Review #2

Which process releases 2260 joules of heat
energy per gram of water into the environment?

• melting
• freezing
• condensation
• evaporation

What is the range of pressure in Earth’s interior
where rock with a density range of 9.9 to
12.2 g/cm3 is found?

• 0.2 to 1.4 million atmospheres
• 0.8 to 2.3 million atmospheres
• 1.4 to 3.1 million atmospheres
• 2.3 to 3.5 million atmospheres

In which landscape region are New York State’s
Finger Lakes primarily located?

• Adirondack Mountains
• Allegheny Plateau
• Atlantic Coastal Plain
• Erie-Ontario Lowlands

Which two features are commonly found at
divergent plate boundaries?

• mid-ocean ridges and rift valleys
• wide valleys and deltas
• ocean trenches and subduction zones
• hot spots and island arcs

New York State bedrock of which age contains
salt, gypsum, and hematite?

• Cambrian
• Devonian
• Mississippian
• Silurian

Scientists infer that oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere
did not exist in large quantities until after

•  the first multicellular, soft-bodied marine
  organisms appeared on Earth
• the initial opening of the Atlantic Ocean
• the first sexually reproducing organisms
  appeared on Earth
• photosynthetic cyanobacteria evolved in
  Earth’s oceans

Which organisms were alive when New York
State was last covered by a continental ice sheet?

• Eurypterus and Cooksonia
• Aneurophyton and Naples Tree
• mastodont and Beluga whale
• Coelophysis and Elliptocephala

One difference between a breccia rock and a
conglomerate rock is that the particles in a breccia
rock are

• more aligned
•  more angular
• harder
• land derived

Which ocean current has the greatest warming influence on the climate of the Outer Banks of North
Carolina?

• Gulf Stream Current
• North Atlantic Current
• Labrador Current
• Canary Current

Which 2 layers of the Earth form the lithosphere?

• Crust and Core
• Crust and lower mantle
• Crust and upper mantle
• Crust and middle mantle