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WorksheetsEarth Science Reference Tables Review
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 4hrs 45mins
Which Earth material has the highest specific heat?
Dry Air
Water Vapor
Liquid Water
Basalt
Which of the following materials will require the least amount of heat to raise its temperature from 20 degrees Celsius to 15 degrees Celsius?
Basalt
Ice
Lead
Granite
Which phase change of water requires the addition of the grestest amount of heat?
melting
vaporization
freezing
condensation
At what temperature is water's density 1.00 gram/milliliter?
3.34 degrees C
3 degrees C
4 degrees C
3.98 degrees C
Which radioactive isotope has a half life of 1,300,000,000 years?
Potassium-40
Uranium-238
Rubidium-87
Carbon-14
Lead-206 (Pb-206) is the daughter isotope for which radioactive isotope?
Rubidium-87
Potassium-40
Uranium-238
Carbon-14
A fossil bone contains C14 and N14 in the ratio of 1:3. How old is the bone?
What is the percentage, by volume, of oxygen in the Earth's crust?
21.0%
33.0%
46.10%
94.04%
A stream transports a sand grain 400 centimeters in 10 seconds. Using the rate of change formula, calculate the rate at which the sand grain moved along the stream bed.
300 cm/sec
40 cm/sec
4 cm/sec
0.025 cm/sec
A mineral with a density of 2.7 g/cm3 has a volume of 120 cm3. What is the mineral's mass?
44.4 g
324 g
0.02 g
Most of the bedrock exposed on the Allegheny Plateau was formed during which geologic time period?
Silurian
Devonian
Ordovician
Cambrian
In which of the following landscape regions would the oldest bedrock be found?
Erie-Ontario Lowlands
Atlantic Coastal Plain
Tug Hill Plateau
Adirondack Mountains
Would limestone and chemically formed sedimentary rocks be found in the Newark Lowlands?
Yes
No
Which landscape region separates the Adirondack Mountains from the Catskills?
St. Lawrence Lowlands
Tug Hill Plateau
Allegheny Plateau
Hudson-Mohawk Lowlands
What landscape region is located at 42o 15' N, 74o 30' W?
The Catskills
Adirondack Mountains
What warm ocean current flows northward along the east coast of the United States?
Canary Current
Labrador Current
The Gulf Stream Current
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what type of plate boundary?
Convergent
Complex
Transform
Divergent
The convergence of two ocean plates is found at the
Peru-Chile Trench
Southeast Indian Ridge
Aleutian Trench
Southeast-Indian Ridge
What is the grain size of a fine-grained igneous rock?
less than 1 mm
1 mm to 10 mm
10 mm or larger
What mafic rock is composed of 100% olivine?
Peridotite
Dunite
Basalt
Gabbro
What is the grain size for a pebble?
0.0004 to 0.006
0.006 to 0.2
0.2 to 6.4
6.4 to 25.6
Which sedimentary rock is composed of cemented shells, shell fragments or precipitates of biologic origin?
Limestone
Rock Salt
Dolostone
Rock Gypsum
Which sedimentary rock is formed from compacted clay particles?
Sandstone
Siltstone
Shale
Which foliated metamorphic rock results from high-grade metamorphism?
Schist
Gneiss
Phyllite
Slate
Which of the following fossils could be found in Middle Proterozoic Era rocks?
coelophysis
graptolite
eurypterid
stromatolites
What important geologic event occurred in NY State during the Late Proterozoic Period between 580-542 million years ago?
Grenville Orogeny
Rifting & initial opening of Iapetus ocean
Collision of North American and Africa
Erosion of Grenville Mountains
Which subdivision of geologic time covers the shortest amount of time?
eon
era
period
epoch
Fossils of the earliest fishes are found during which epoch?
Late Silurian
Middle Cambrian
Early Ordovician
What is the interior temperature at the boundary between Earth's mantle and the outer core?
4,000 o C
5,000 o C
3,500 o C
6,000 o C
What is the pressure (in million of atmospheres) at a depth of 5,000 km below Earth's surface?
4
2.5
3
3.5
Which is denser?
Continental Crust
Oceanic Crust
In which zone of Earth's interior is the density 11.0 grams/cm3 ?
Outer Core
Inner Core
Stiffer Mantle
Asthenosphere
Which seismic wave travels at the fastest rate?
P wave
S wave
Find the relative humidity if the dry-bulb temperature is 14o C and the wet-bulb temperature is 8o C
On a weather map, an air mass that is warm and dry would be indicated as:
cP
mT
cT
mP
This symbol represents:
Stationary Front
Occluded Front
Warm Front
Cold Front
The greatest concentration of water vapor is present in which temperature zone of the atmosphere?
stratosphere
troposphere
mesosphere
thermosphere
Which visible color wavelegnth of the electromagnetic spectrum has the shortest wavelength?
red
orange
blue
violet
Between 30 and 60 degrees N, planetary winds are generally from which compass direction?
northwest
southwest
northeast
southeast
What color stars are the hottest?
blue
white
yellow
red
Which planet takes the longest to travel once around the Sun along its orbit?
Mercury
Uranus
Neptune
Venus
What mineral has a chemical formula of FeS2?
Hematite
Galena
Pyrite
Magnetite
Which star is classified as a supergiant?
Proxima Centauri
Procyon B
Rigel
Alpha Centauri
What mineral is easily scratched by a fingernail and is used in the making of plaster of paris and drywall?
Selenite Gypsum
Pyrite
Talc
Quartz
Which planet's orbit has an eccentricity closes to that of a circle?
Neptune
Venus
Earth
Mercury
