Name: Period: Reference Table Review 1.What radioactive isotope would be most useful in dating a mastodont bone? 1. 2.What is the decay product of Uraniurn 238? 2. 3.If there is 1/4 of the original amount of K 40 in a rock sample, how old is the rock? 3. 4.List the order in which samples of the following would heat up: copper, dry air, and lead. 4. 5.Which material loses its heat most easily? 5. 6.In what phase is water when its density is 3.98 C? 6. 7.Which phase change involves the greatest release of heat? 7. 8.Which phase change involves a gain of 80 calories/gram? 8. 9.If a student measures the rainfall as 3.2 cm, but the actual rainfall amount was 2.8 cm, what was his percent error (deviation)? 9. 10.If the length of the focal distance was changed from 2.2cm to 2.4cm, what would happen to the eccentricity? 10. 11.What is the eccentricity of an ellipse having a focal distance of 12 million km and a major axis 12 trillion km long? 11. 12.The temperature of a room is 72 F at one end and 68 F at the other. What is the temperature gradient if the room's length is 20ft? 12. 13.What is the rate of erosion of Mt. Levy, in centimeters per year, if in 1950 the elevation of its peak was 1200m and in the year 2000 it was only 1199.9m? 13. 14.What is the density of a sample whose mass is 57g and has a volume of 28.5cm 3? 14. 15.What is the distance, to the nearest millimeter, between the X's? X X 15. 16.The Catskills is part of what larger landscape region? 16. 17.The Taconic Mountains are part of which larger landscape region? 17. 18.What is the age of the bedrock of the Adirondack Mountain region? 18. 19.What states comprise the New England Province? 19. 20.What are the approximate latitude and longitude of Mt. Marcy, New York? 20. 21.The Palisades Sill is of what age? 21. 22.Which is of a higher elevation: Lake Erie or Lake Ontario? 22. 23.What is the distance, in miles, from Elmira to Binghamton? 23. 24.In the southern hemisphere, in which compass direction do ocean currents flow along the west coast of continents? 24. 25.Is the Alaska current a warm or cool ocean current? 25. 26.The East Africa Rift is what type of boundary? 26. 27.What is the longitude of the Sandwich Plate? 27. 28.What must happen in order that an igneous rock turns into magma? 28. 29.What must happen in order that an igneous rock turns into a metamorphic rock? 29. 1
30.How fast must the water in a stream be flowing in order to transport a cobble? 30. 31.What is the range of values for the diameter of a particle of sand? 31. 32.A particle of sediment measures 0.001cm. Into which size category would you classify this particle? 32. 33.List the mafic minera1s. 33. 34.In millimeters, what size are the crystals in a very coarse igneous rock? 34. 35.If a rock is extrusive and is composed of more than 20% quartz, what is the name of the rock? 35. 36.If an igneous rock has gas pockets, describe its texture. 36. 37.Give an example of each of the three types of sedimentary rocks. 37. 38.What is a chemical sedimentary rock composed of the mineral dolomite? 38. 39.What sedimentary rock is made from plants? 39. 40.What two foliated metamorphic rocks contain pyroxene? 40. 41.What type of metamorphism produces the metamorphic rock schist? 41. 42.When sandstone undergoes extreme heat and/or pressure, what metamorphic rock results? 42. 43.How many million years ago were stromatolites in existence? 43. 44.During which eon was the earth experiencing a transition to an atmosphere containing oxygen? 44. 45.Which Era lasted for the longest time? 45. 46.During which period were the earliest fish? 46. 47.For which period is there no rock record in NYS? 47. 48.Which species of placoderm fish has been found in the fossil record of NY State? 48. 49.During which period was there a continental collision affecting northeast North America? 49. 50.List an orogeny that occurred in the vicinity of New York. 50. 51.Lichenaria is what type of organism? 51. 52.The Cascades are found on which continent? 52. 53.What is another name for the asthenosphere? 53. 54.What is the range of possible densities for the outer core? 54. 55.What is the depth of the outer/inner core boundary? 55. 56.Are there rising or sinking convection currents in the mantle surrounding a trench? 56. 57What is the pressure at the top of the inner core? 57 58.List the layer(s) that are in the liquid phase 58. 59.What is the temperature at a depth of 3 x l 0 3 km? 59. 60.Which is more dense, continental or oceanic crust? 60. 61.In what phase are the troposphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere? 61. 62.What is Na? 62. 63.If an earthquake occurs 6,000krn away, how long does it take for the s- waves to travel to you? 63. 2
64.How far away is an earthquake if the p-waves arrived at 02:32:40 and the s-waves arrived at 02:37:40? 64. 65.At what time did an earthquake occur if you are 3,000km away and the p-wave arrived at 07:00:00? 65. 66.What is the dew point if the wet bulb reading was l 2 C, and the air temperature was 20 C? 66. 67.What is the relative humidity if the dry bulb is 5 C and the wet bulb is -2? 67. 68.30 C is equa1 to how many degrees Fahrenheit? 68. 69.28.82 inches of mercury equals how many millibars of air pressure? 69. 70.What is on e atmosphere of barometric pressure worth in inches of mercury AND millibars? 70. 71.If the dew point and temperature readings are close together in value, what is likely to happen? 71. 72.What type of air mass is warm and dry? 72. 73.What is indicated by an upside-down isosceles triangle in the present weather portion of the station model? 73. 74.What type of front is indicated by alternating triangles and semi-circles found on the same side of the front line? 74. 75.What is the division, or boundary, between the mesosphere and thermosphere called? 75. 76.What is the atmospheric pressure, in atm., at an elevation of 50 km? 76. 77.What happens to the temperature as you go from an elevation 7 miles to 30 miles? 77. 78.What is the temperature at the tropopause? 78. 79.In which layer is all the water vapor of the atmosphere found? 79. 80.What is the range of wavelengths for the visib1e portion of the electromagnetic spectrum? 80. 81.Which color of the "rainbow" has the longest wavelength? 81. 82.EM energy that has a wavelength that is 1cm long is what? 82. 83.During which season is the planetary wind and moisture belts diagram drawn? 83. 84.At which two latitudes do we find the polar front jet streams? 84. 85.List the latitudes that are wet. 85. 86.List the 1atitudes that have converging wind belts. 86. 87.List the latitudes that have rising air. 87. 88.What color star has the hottest temperature? 88. 89.A star whose luminosity is 100 times that of our Sun would be classified as what type of star? 89. 90.What is the approximate temperature of Sirius? 90. 91.Give the name of a star that is less than 1/100th the brightness the Sun. 91. 92.MOST stars can be classified as what type of star? 92. 93.How far away, in millions of kilometers, is the moon from the earth? 93. 94.Name the bodies whose rotational period is nearly the same as their revolutionary period. 94. 95.Which planet's orbit is most 1ike a circle? 95. 96.What planet has such a low density that it would float in water? 96. 3
97.Name the moonless planets. 97. 98.Which mineral occurs with both a metallic and a monominerallic luster? 98. 99.What is the hardest mineral listed on the chart. 99. 100.Name two minerals that bubble when reacting with acid. 100. 4
Reference Table Review Answer Key 1. C-14 or Carbon-14 2. Pb-206 or Lead-206 3. 2.6 x 10 9 or 2,600,000,000 years 4. lead (fastest), copper, dry air (slowest) 5. lead 6. liquid 7. condensation or gas! liquid 8. melting 9. 14.3% 10. eccentricity decreases 11. e =.001 12..2 F/ foot 13. Answer needs to be in cm/year. Units are m/year. Be careful!.002m/yr =.2 cm/yr 14. 2.0 g/cm 3 15. Answer needs to be in mm not cm! Be careful. 2.6 cm = 26 mm 16. Allegheny Plateau 17. Hudson Highlands 18. Middle Proterozoic 19. Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont 20. 44 10 N, 74 W 21. Late Triassic/ Early Jurassic 22. Lake Erie 23. 45 miles 24. Northwest 25. warm current 26. complex or uncertain boundary 27. 35 W 28. igneous rock must melt 29. igneous rock must undergo heat and pressure 30. at least 190 cm/sec 31. sand is 0.006 cm to 0.2 cm 32. silt 33. olivine, pyroxene, amphibole, biotite, plagioclase feldspar 34. 1 mm to 10 mm 35. Could be: rhyolite or pumice or obsidian 36. glassy and/or fine 37. Many answers make sure you name one fragmental (clastic), one crystalline and one bioclastic rock. 38. dolostone 39. coal 40. gneiss and schist 41. regional metamorphism 42. quartzite 43. 1300 million years ago 44. Precambrian 45. Archean and Proterozoic (they seem the same) 46. Cambrian 47. Tertiary (Neogene and Paleogene are sub-periods) 48. Bothriolepis (Index Fossil R on top of page 9) 49. Devonian (?) 50. Acadian 51. Coral 5
52. N. America (Reference Tables page 10) 53. plastic mantle 54. 9.9-12.1 g/cm 3 55. approx. 5150 km 56. sinking 57. approx. 3.1 millions of atm. 58. asthenosphere and outer core 59. 5000 C 60. oceanic 61. troposphere = gas; hydrosphere = liquid; lithosphere = solid 62. sodium 63. 17 minutes 64. 3.4 x 10 3 km or 3400 km (Time difference was 5 minutes) 65. 6:54:20 (because the p-wave took 5 min and 40 seconds to travel and then it arrived at 7:00:00 66. 4 C 67. doesn t exist (?) 68. 86 F 69. 976.0 mb 70. 1 atm = 1013.2 mb and 29.92 inches of Hg (mercury) 71. precipitation 72. ct = continental tropical 73. showers 74. occluded 75. mesopause 76. between 10-3 and 10-2 77. increases (this is the stratosphere) 78. -55 C 79. troposphere 80. 4.0 x 10-5 and 7.0 x 10-5 81. red 82. microwave 83. at an equinox could be fall or spring 84. 60 S and 60 N 85. 0, 60 S and 60 N 86. 0, 60 S and 60 N 87. 0, 60 S and 60 N 88. blue 89. red giants (some main sequence stars can also be 100 times as luminous) 90. approx. 9900 C 91. Procyon B 92. Main Sequence 93..386 millions of km 94. Moon and Venus 95. Venus 96. Saturn 97. Mercury and Venus 98. Hematite 99. Garnet and Quartz 100. Calcite and Dolomite 6
Name: Earth Science Reference Table Worksheet 1.If you add the same amount of heat energy to equal masses of basalt, water, copper and iron, which will heat the fastest? Which will heat the slowest? 2.How much energy is needed to melt 45g of ice at 0ºC? 3.How much energy is needed to boil 45g of water at 100ºC? 4.What is the density if a sample of rock has a mass of 69g and a volume of 23ml? 5.Which has the greatest half life, carbon-14, potassium-40 or uranium-238? 6.What type of rocks make up the majority of the Allegheny Plateau? 7.Rock from the Tug Hill Plateau was formed at the same time as which other area of New York? 8.Which area of New York contains rocks that were formed during the Middle Proterozoic Era? 9.Which area of New York is made up of gravels, sands and clays? 10.What is the approximate latitude and longitude of Mt. Marcy? 11.What type of current is found on the west side of South America? 12.What is the name of the current located at 30ºN 15ºW? 13.What direction do the ocean currents circulate in the northern hemisphere? 14.Is the Brazil current a warm or cold water current? 15.What is the latitude of the Hawaiian hot spot? 16.What direction is the South American plate moving in? 17.What type of boundary is the East Pacific Ridge? 18.Which part of the United States can you find a transform boundary? 19.Which plate is more dense the Nazca or South American plate? 20.How does igneous rock form?
21.Sedimentary rock that is subjected to heat and pressure changes into what type of rock? 22.How does igneous rock become sedimentary rock? 23.Particle sizes from 0.2cm to 6.4cm are classified as what type of sediment? 24.What are the largest sized particles that can be moved by a river traveling at 100cm/sec? 25.What is the range of particle sizes for silt? 26.What name is given to a light colored, coarse textured igneous rock? 27.What name is given to a dark colored intrusive igneous rock? 28.Dunite is made up of what type of mineral? 29.What mineral is the major component of Andesite? 30.What type of sedimentary rock contains particles that are very fine grained? 31.Sediments that have a size between 0.006 and 0.2 cm will form what type of rock? 32.Sediments that have a size of 0.0002 cm will form what type of rock? 33.What type of rock is made from carbon? 34.What mineral is rock salt made from? 35.What would a fine grained, foliated, metamorphic rock be called? 36.What rock is formed when limestone undergoes metamorphism? 37.What era did the dinosaurs live in? 38.What period are we currently in? 39.What period are the earliest birds believed to have originated in? 40.What era did the Atlantic Ocean begin to open? 41.What is the density of the outer core of the earth?
42.What two metals are believed to make up the inner core of the earth? 43.What layer of the earth surrounds the outer core? 44.What happens to the pressure as you travel toward the center of the earth? 45.What happens to the temperature as you travel toward the center of the earth? 46.Is the earth a solid or a liquid at a depth of 3500km? 47.What is the most abundant element in the earth s crust? 48.What is the most abundant element in the troposphere? 49.How far away from an earthquake are you if it takes 5 minutes for the p-wave to arrive at your location? 50.If it the s-wave arrives 3 minutes and 20 seconds after the p-wave, how far from the earthquake are you? 51.If you are 7600km from the epicenter of an earthquake, how long did it take the p-wave to reach you? 52.If you are 2000km from the epicenter of an earthquake and the p-wave reaches you at 2:10:00pm, what time will the s-wave reach your location? 53.If the temperature is 14ºC and the wet bulb temperature is 10ºC, what is the dew point and what is the relative humidity? 54.If the dew point is 20ºC and the temperature is 24ºC what is the wet bulb temperature, and what is the relative humidity? 55.Convert 60ºF to ºC 56.Convert 996.0mb to inches of Hg 57.What is the symbol for a maritime tropical air mass? 58.cP is the symbol for what type of air mass? 59.What happens to the temperature as you rise up through the troposphere?
60.What happens to the pressure as you rise up through the troposphere? 61.What happens to the water vapor content as you rise up through the troposphere? 62.Which wavelength of visible light has the longest wavelength? 63.Which latitudes do you find sinking air? 64.What color are the hottest stars? 65.How long is a day on Mars? 66.How long is a year on Neptune? 67.Which planet s orbit around the sun is the most circular? 68.How does the density of the inner planets compare to the densities of the outer planets? 69.Which mineral can be scratched by gypsum? 70.What mineral(s) would be a good choice for use in sand paper? 71.What metallic iron ore produces a reddish brown streak?