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WorksheetsEarth Science Regents 2019 Q11-20
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 16mins
11. When one gram of liquid water at its boiling point is changed into water vapor
334 J/g is gained from the surrounding environment
334 J/g is released into the surrounding environment
2260 J/g is gained from the surrounding environment
2260 J/g is released into the surrounding environment
12. What is indicated by the dashed line labeled X?
watershed
water table
impermeable bedrock
impermeable soil
13. Which index fossil in sedimentary surface bedrock most likely indicates that a marine environment once existed in the region where the sediments were deposited?
Mastodont
Condor
Eospirifer
Coelophysis
14. Which table correctly matches each letter with the type of frontal boundary it represents?
15. Which process most likely caused the formation of the Michigan Basin?
uplift
faulting
metamorphism
downwarping
16. Which location would most likely have cloud cover and precipitation?
A
B
C
D
17. Which Earth surface would most likely absorb the greatest amount of insolation on a sunny day if all of these surfaces have equal areas?
blacktop parking lot
white sand beach
surface of a calm lake
snow covered mountain slope
18. Most of the infrared radiation given off by Earth's surface is absorbed in Earth's atmosphere by greenhouse gases such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, and
hydrogen
nitrogen
oxygen
methane
19. During which geologic period was the region of Washington State closest to the equator?
Cretaceous
Triassic
Mississippian
Ordovician
20. A climate even that occurs when surface water in the eastern equatorial area of the Pacific Ocean becomes warmer than normal and may cause a warm, dry winter in New York State is
an air mass formation
the Doppler effect
an El Nino
a monsoon
