ESRT Midterm Practice (work with a partner) Name:______per______

Page 1:

  1. If the density of 4.7g/ml and a mass of 1.6 g what is the volume? ______
  2. The mass of an object is 56.3g and the volume is 45.5 ml. Density =______, sink or float in water?______
  3. What is the orbital eccentricity of a planet if the foci distance is 9.2 cm and the major axis

is 18.3 cm? ______

  1. Point A is 580 m in elevation and Point B is100 meters. The distance between is 5.3 km.

What is the slope (gradient)?______

  1. What is the most common element, by volume, in the earth's crust? ______

Pages 2 &3 :

  1. Locate the central latitude and longitude of the following landscape regions in NYS:
  2. Tug Hill Plateau ______
  3. Adirondack Mountains ______
  4. Allegheny Plateau______
  5. Within what landscape is Great Neck located? ______
  6. Where are the oldest rocks in New York State? ______Their age ______
  7. Where are the youngest rocks in New York State? ______Their age ______
  8. Which landscape region(s) ofNYS have no fossils? ______
  9. 42˚20’ N and 76˚30’ W… what city is this? ______

Page 4:

  1. Describe the Gulf Stream: direction of movement ______temperature of current ______
  2. Describe the California Current : direction of movement ______temperature of current _____

Page 5:

  1. Major plates of the world: ______

______

  1. List the 3 major plate boundaries / motions ______
  2. Describe the relationship between the tectonics map and the locations of volcanicactivity?______
  3. What is the driving force of Plate Tectonics?______

Page 6/7:

  1. What minerals are found in granite? ______
  2. How does rhyolite differ from granite? ______
  3. Which minerals are not present in felsic type igneous rocks but are present in mafic typeigneous rocks? ______
  1. What process must a rock undergo in order to become igneous? ______
  2. What process must a rock undergo in order to become metamorphosed? ______
  3. List all the terms associated with the formation of sedimentary rocks. ______
  4. What are the two major divisions of sedimentary rocks? ______
  5. How is a breccia different from a conglomerate? ______
  6. How is rock gypsum formed? ______
  7. What are the main types of metamorphism? ______
  8. What are the two major textures of metamorphic rocks? ______
  9. Complete: metamorphic rock ------> parent rock

slate______

marble______

quartzite______

Page 8/9:

  1. What is the approximate age of the Intrusion of the Palisades Sill? ______
  2. When was the Taconic Orogeny and how did it happen? ______
  3. When did the Atlantic Ocean started to open?______
  4. What is the official fossil of NYS (see cover/ page 1 )?______
  5. List two geologic periods where NO rock is recorded in NYS: ______
  6. Fossil “U” is most similar to fossil “______”

Page 10:

  1. Which earth layer is the most dense ?______
  2. What is the approximate pressure at the mantle-outer core interface? ______
  3. In which zone of the earth is the Earth' s temperature change the greatest? ______
  4. Describe where the Moho is located? ______
  5. How thick is the asthenosphere? ______
  6. What does ultramafic mean? ______
  7. What is the approximate depth of the Outer Core from beginning______to end ______.

Page 11:

  1. What is the scale on the y-axis? ______
  2. What is the scale on the x-axis ?______
  3. If P waves arrive 5 minutes and 20 seconds before S waves from an earthquake, what is the

distance of the observer from the epicenter? ______

  1. If the epicenter is 2.2 x 103 km (2,200 km) from the observer, how long did it take the P-wave to travel to

the station?______, S-Wave: ______

  1. If a P-wave arrives at 14:36:50 and the S-wave arrives at 14:45:20, what is the origin time?? ______Page

page 16:

  1. What mineral is dark and cleaves into sheets? ______
  2. What mineral has a red streak? ______
  3. List two properties of olivine. 1. ______2. ______
  4. What is the official NYS gem?______
  5. What are the chemical symbols for: Iron ______, Potassium ______, Sodium ______, Lead______Magnesium______

ESRT MIDTERM PracticeDooher 2015