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Earth Science Reference Tables Review

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 4hrs 45mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which Earth material has the highest specific heat?

a)

Dry Air

b)

Water Vapor

c)

Liquid Water

d)

Basalt

2.

Which of the following materials will require the least amount of heat to raise its temperature from 20 degrees Celsius to 15 degrees Celsius?

a)

Basalt

b)

Ice

c)

Lead

d)

Granite

3.

Which phase change of water requires the addition of the grestest amount of heat?

a)

melting

b)

vaporization

c)

freezing

d)

condensation

4.

At what temperature is water's density 1.00 gram/milliliter?

a)

3.34 degrees C

b)

3 degrees C

c)

4 degrees C

d)

3.98 degrees C

5.

Which radioactive isotope has a half life of 1,300,000,000 years?

a)

Potassium-40

b)

Uranium-238

c)

Rubidium-87

d)

Carbon-14

6.

Lead-206 (Pb-206) is the daughter isotope for which radioactive isotope?

a)

Rubidium-87

b)

Potassium-40

c)

Uranium-238

d)

Carbon-14

7.

A fossil bone contains C14 and N14 in the ratio of 1:3. How old is the bone?

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8.

What is the percentage, by volume, of oxygen in the Earth's crust?

a)

21.0%

b)

33.0%

c)

46.10%

d)

94.04%

9.

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.

a)

300 cm/sec

b)

40 cm/sec

c)

4 cm/sec

d)

0.025 cm/sec

10.

A mineral with a density of 2.7 g/cm3 has a volume of 120 cm3. What is the mineral's mass?

a)

44.4 g

b)

324 g

c)

0.02 g

11.

Most of the bedrock exposed on the Allegheny Plateau was formed during which geologic time period?

a)

Silurian

b)

Devonian

c)

Ordovician

d)

Cambrian

12.

In which of the following landscape regions would the oldest bedrock be found?

a)

Erie-Ontario Lowlands

b)

Atlantic Coastal Plain

c)

Tug Hill Plateau

d)

Adirondack Mountains

13.

Would limestone and chemically formed sedimentary rocks be found in the Newark Lowlands?

a)

Yes

b)

No

14.

Which landscape region separates the Adirondack Mountains from the Catskills?

a)

St. Lawrence Lowlands

b)

Tug Hill Plateau

c)

Allegheny Plateau

d)

Hudson-Mohawk Lowlands

15.

What landscape region is located at 42o 15' N, 74o 30' W?

a)

The Catskills

b)

Adirondack Mountains

16.

What warm ocean current flows northward along the east coast of the United States?

a)

Canary Current

b)

Labrador Current

c)

The Gulf Stream Current

17.

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what type of plate boundary?

a)

Convergent

b)

Complex

c)

Transform

d)

Divergent

18.

The convergence of two ocean plates is found at the

a)

Peru-Chile Trench

b)

Southeast Indian Ridge

c)

Aleutian Trench

d)

Southeast-Indian Ridge

19.

What is the grain size of a fine-grained igneous rock?

a)

less than 1 mm

b)

1 mm to 10 mm

c)

10 mm or larger

20.

What mafic rock is composed of 100% olivine?

a)

Peridotite

b)

Dunite

c)

Basalt

d)

Gabbro

21.

What is the grain size for a pebble?

a)

0.0004 to 0.006

b)

0.006 to 0.2

c)

0.2 to 6.4

d)

6.4 to 25.6

22.

Which sedimentary rock is composed of cemented shells, shell fragments or precipitates of biologic origin?

a)

Limestone

b)

Rock Salt

c)

Dolostone

d)

Rock Gypsum

23.

Which sedimentary rock is formed from compacted clay particles?

a)

Sandstone

b)

Siltstone

c)

Shale

24.

Which foliated metamorphic rock results from high-grade metamorphism?

a)

Schist

b)

Gneiss

c)

Phyllite

d)

Slate

25.

Which of the following fossils could be found in Middle Proterozoic Era rocks?

a)

coelophysis

b)

graptolite

c)

eurypterid

d)

stromatolites

26.

What important geologic event occurred in NY State during the Late Proterozoic Period between 580-542 million years ago?

a)

Grenville Orogeny

b)

Rifting & initial opening of Iapetus ocean

c)

Collision of North American and Africa

d)

Erosion of Grenville Mountains

27.

Which subdivision of geologic time covers the shortest amount of time?

a)

eon

b)

era

c)

period

d)

epoch

28.

Fossils of the earliest fishes are found during which epoch?

a)

Late Silurian

b)

Middle Cambrian

c)

Early Ordovician

29.

What is the interior temperature at the boundary between Earth's mantle and the outer core?

a)

4,000 o C

b)

5,000 o C

c)

3,500 o C

d)

6,000 o C

30.

What is the pressure (in million of atmospheres) at a depth of 5,000 km below Earth's surface?

a)

4

b)

2.5

c)

3

d)

3.5

31.

Which is denser?

a)

Continental Crust

b)

Oceanic Crust

32.

In which zone of Earth's interior is the density 11.0 grams/cm3 ?

a)

Outer Core

b)

Inner Core

c)

Stiffer Mantle

d)

Asthenosphere

33.

Which seismic wave travels at the fastest rate?

a)

P wave

b)

S wave

34.

Find the relative humidity if the dry-bulb temperature is 14o C and the wet-bulb temperature is 8o C

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35.

On a weather map, an air mass that is warm and dry would be indicated as:

a)

cP

b)

mT

c)

cT

d)

mP

36.

This symbol represents:

a)

Stationary Front

b)

Occluded Front

c)

Warm Front

d)

Cold Front

37.

The greatest concentration of water vapor is present in which temperature zone of the atmosphere?

a)

stratosphere

b)

troposphere

c)

mesosphere

d)

thermosphere

38.

Which visible color wavelegnth of the electromagnetic spectrum has the shortest wavelength?

a)

red

b)

orange

c)

blue

d)

violet

39.

Between 30 and 60 degrees N, planetary winds are generally from which compass direction?

a)

northwest

b)

southwest

c)

northeast

d)

southeast

40.

What color stars are the hottest?

a)

blue

b)

white

c)

yellow

d)

red

41.

Which planet takes the longest to travel once around the Sun along its orbit?

a)

Mercury

b)

Uranus

c)

Neptune

d)

Venus

42.

What mineral has a chemical formula of FeS2?

a)

Hematite

b)

Galena

c)

Pyrite

d)

Magnetite

43.

Which star is classified as a supergiant?

a)

Proxima Centauri

b)

Procyon B

c)

Rigel

d)

Alpha Centauri

44.

What mineral is easily scratched by a fingernail and is used in the making of plaster of paris and drywall?

a)

Selenite Gypsum

b)

Pyrite

c)

Talc

d)

Quartz

45.

Which planet's orbit has an eccentricity closes to that of a circle?

a)

Neptune

b)

Venus

c)

Earth

d)

Mercury