ESRT Regents Review Scavenger Hunt

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All questions are from pages in the ESRT.

What is your name? *

Pg. 1. What is the half life of Uranium-238? *

2 points

How many half lives have passed if a wood sample from a glacier deposit is 28,500 years old? *

2 points

Why would you use carbon 14 to date that wood sample? *

2 points

Because carbon is used to date once living things younger than 50,000 years

Because carbon is used to date non-organic things younger than 50,000 years

Because carbon is used to date once living things older than 50,000 years

Because carbon is used to date non-organic things older than 50,000 years

What process causes the most energy to be gained? *

2 points

Melting

Freezing

Vaporization

Condensation

What element makes up about 8% of crustal rocks by mass, but only about .5% by volume? *

2 points

Silicon

Oxygen

Aluminum

Iron

Pg. 2. What landscape region do we live in? *

2 points

Alleghany Plateau

Tug Hill

Atlantic Coastal Plain

Erie-Ontario Lowlands

What major geographic province does the tug hill plateau belong to? *

2 points

Interior Lowlands

Appalachian Plateau

New England Province

Atlantic Coastal Plain

Pg. 3. What is the Lat and Long of Rochester? *

2 points

What is the age of the bedrock in Binghamton? *

2 points

Cretaceous

Silurian

Ordivician

Devonian

Pg. 4. What ocean current keeps NYS Warm? *

2 points

How does the Peru Current affect the climate of S.A.? *

2 points

Pg. 5. What type of plate boundary is the East African Rift? *

2 points

Convergent

Divergent

Transform

Trivergent

What is found at 45N, 118W? *

2 points

What type of plate boundary is on the East side of the Juan de Fuca Plate? *

2 points

Convergent

Divergent

Transform

Fault

Pg. 6. What processes must a metamorphic rock go through to become sedimentary? *

2 points

Heat, Pressure, Solidification

Solidification, Weathering, Erosion, Cementation, Compaction

Weathering, Erosion, Cementation, Compaction

Melting, Solidification, Weathering, Erosion

What types of rocks can become igneous? *

2 points

Sedimentary

Metamorphic

Igneous

All of them

What is the largest sediment that can be carried by a stream moving 20cm/s *

2 points

What is the particle size of silt? *

2 points

.006-.2

.0004-.006

less than .0004

Name the rock that contains plagioclase feldspar, biotite, and amphibole, pyroxene, and was formed intrusively. *

2 points

What rock is mafic, dark colored, and vesicular? *

2 points

Pg. 7. What rock is composed of clay? *

2 points

How does dolostone form?

2 points

What are the 2 textures of metamorphic rocks? *

2 points

Pg. 8+9. How long did the Devonian last? *

2 points

65.5 My

40 My

57 My

100 My

What is the name of the index fossil that lived in the late Triassic? *

2 points

What happened at the end of the Paleozoic Era? *

2 points

A Mass Extinction

Coal forming forests

The Earliest Birds

An organic Explosion

You find a Manticoceras in a rock sample. What type of rock did you find it in and how old is the rock? *

2 points

Pg. 10. What layer of the Earth has convection cells? *

2 points

Inner Core

Crust

Lithosphere

Asthenosphere

What is the temperature and pressure at the mantle-core boundary? *

2 points

Pg. 11. How far away is the epicenter of an earthquake if the S-P wave difference id 6min 20sec? *

2 points

If an earthquake occurred at 7:20:00 and the distance to the epicenter is 4,000km, what time did the P wave arrive? What time did the S wave Arrive? *

2 points

Pg. 12. What is the Dew point if the air temp is 13C and the wet bulb is 9C? *

2 points

If the DP is -1C and the air temp is 4C, what is the Relative Humidity? (Hint: use both charts)

2 points

As the DP gets closer to the air temperature, what happens to the Relative Humidity? *

2 points

Pg. 13. Convert -16C to Fahrenheit *

2 points

Convert 29.30 inches of mercury to millibars. *

2 points

What type of air mass has cool, dry air? *

2 points

Pg. 14. What happens to the amount of water vapor as you go from the tropopause down to sea level? *

2 points

Planetary winds at latitude 43N generally come from the *

2 points

List the wavelengths of light from shortest to longest *

2 points

What is the color, temp, and luminosity of Polaris? *

2 points

Name the Blue-White Supergiant star with a luminosity of 100000. *

2 points

How far is the Earth's moon from the Earth? *

2 points

Which planet has a period of rotation very similar to Earth's? *

2 points

Mercury

Venus

Mars

Jupiter

Which planetary orbit has the greatest eccentricity? *

2 points

Mercury

Venus

Earth

Mars

What mineral is used to make drywall? *

2 points

What Glassy Hexagonal mineral crystal could scratch flourite but might not scratch garnet? *

2 points

Putting it all together: Why does Hydrocloric acid a good field test to check if a rock is marble or limestone? *

2 points

Where is NYS could you go to find crystals such as garnets or quartz? Why might you find them there? *

2 points

Which page in the reference table is giving you the most trouble? *

2 points

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