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- 1. Multiple Choice
What can be found at this location? 43º 5'N , 76º 10'W
Watertown
Syracuse
Niagara Falls
Utica
- 2. Multiple Choice
How high is Polaris in the night sky at Mt. Marcy?
74º
45º
73º
44º
- 3. Multiple Choice
What location sees Polaris the highest in the sky?
Bouvet Hot Spot
Hawaii Hot Spot
Yellowstone Hot Spot
Canary Islands Hot Spot
- 4. Multiple Choice
What are the coordinates for the center of Australia?
23.5ºN, 140ºW
140ºN, 23.5ºE
23.5ºS, 140ºE
20ºS, 180º
- 5. Multiple Choice
What is the approximate gradient from point A to point B on the island?
1000 ft/mi
1250 ft/mi
2000 ft/mi
2500 ft/mi
- 6. Multiple Choice
What is the approximate gradient between point X and point Y?
10 ft/mi
20 ft/mi
40 ft/mi
80 ft/mi
- 7. Multiple ChoiceThe approximate latitude of Utica, NY is43o 05' N75o 15' E42o 55' N75o 15' W
- 8. Multiple Choice
What are the two most abundance elements found in the Lithosphere? (Pick Two)
Oxygen
Hydrogen
Nitrogen
Silicon
- 9. Multiple Choice
What kind of Plate Boundary exists between the Indian-Australian Plate and Antarctic Plate?
Transform
Convergent
Divergent
Complex or Uncertain
- 10. Multiple Choice
What are the coordinates for the Easter Island Hot Spot?
25ºS, 120ºW
25ºN, 120ºE
120ºN, 25ºE
0º, 180º
- 11. Multiple Choice
Between which two tectonic plates would you find a mid-ocean ridge?
Pacific Plate and Eurasian Plate
Nazca Plate and South American Plate
South American Plate and African Plate
Pacific Plate and Indian-Australian Plate
- 12. Multiple Choice
How many minutes in a degree of Longitude or Latitude?
15
30
45
60
- 13. Multiple Choice
What compass direction of Latitude, Longitude would be used on this map?
South, East
North, East
South, West
North, West
- 14. Multiple Choice
What ocean current is located in the WESTERN hemisphere of the planet?
Kuroshio Current
Labrador Current
East Australia Current
Agulhas Current
- 15. Multiple Choice
Approximately what Latitude is the Alaska Current located at?
60° S
145° W
60° N
145° E
- 16. Multiple Choice
The ocean current flowing along the west coast of Australia is
North Equatorial current
West Australia current
North pacific current
Peru current
- 17. Multiple Choice
The Hawaii hotspot is approximately
20 degrees N, 160 degrees W
40 degrees N, 120 degrees East
40 degrees S, 120 degrees W
60 degrees N, 130 degrees W
- 18. Multiple Choice
The Arctic and the Antarctic circles begin from
0 degrees East and West of the Prime meridian
0 degrees N and S of the Equator
66.5 degrees N and 66.5 degrees S
50 degrees N and 50 degrees S
- 19. Multiple ChoiceBetween which tectonic plates would you find these features forming?Antarctic and Indian Australian PlatesAfrican and South American PlatesJuan de Fuca and North American PlatesEurasian and North American Plates
- 20. Multiple ChoiceWhat plate is subducting at the Aleutian Trench?Eurasian PlateNorth AmericanPhilippine PlatePacific Plate
- 21. Multiple ChoiceBetween which plates are mid-ocean ridges forming?Nazca and South American PlatesNorth American and Eurasian PlatesIndian Australian and Eurasian PlatesPacific and Fiji Plates
- 22. Multiple Choice
How many grams of Carbon-14 will remain after 17,100 years?
32 g
16 g
8 g
4 g
- 23. Multiple Choice
Which disintigration product is represented on the graph?
206Pb
87Sr
40Ar
14N
- 24. Multiple Choice
How many half-lives have passed if 12.5% 14C remains?
1 Half-life
2 Half-lives
3 Half-lives
4 Half-lives
- 25. Multiple Choice
What percentage of Rubidium-87 will remain after 4 half-lives?
25%
12.5%
6.25%
3.125%
- 26. Multiple Choice
According to page 1 of the ESRT, what is the specific heat value of liquid water (in joules per gram)?
0.45
0.84
2.11
4.18
- 27. Multiple Choice
According to page 1 of the ESRT, which material has the highest specific heat value?
liquid water
ice
iron
lead
- 28. Multiple Choice
The specific heat value of copper is higher than the specific heat value of lead. This means that...
copper heats up at a faster rate than lead
copper heats up at a slower rate than lead
- 29. Multiple Choice
Materials with high specific heat values, such as liquid water, take _________to heat up and cool down.
more time
less time
- 30. Multiple Choice
Equal masses of basalt, iron, and copper are placed in the Sun for 30 minutes. Based on their specific heat values, which material will heat up at the fastest rate?
basalt
iron
copper
- 31. Multiple ChoiceCalculate the eccentricity for the following orbit.1.60.80.61.2
- 32. Multiple ChoiceWhat is eccentricity?a measurement of how elliptical an orbit is.a measurement of the distance between the planet and the suna measurement of how long the planet takes to rotate around the sunnone of these
- 33. Multiple Choice
Which type of surface bedrock is most commonly found in the Utica, New York area?
sedimentary, with limestone, shale, sandstone, and dolostone
sedimentary, with limestone, shale, sandstone, and conglomerate
metamorphic, with quartzite, dolostone, marble, and schist
metamorphic, with gneiss, quartzite, marble, and slate
- 34. Multiple Choice
Which body of water is about 50 km to the east of Mt. Marcy?
Lake Champlain
The Long Island Sound
Lake Superior
Lake Erie
- 35. Multiple Choice
Which landscape region is a flat plain consisting mainly of unsorted clays, gravels, sands, scratched pebbles, boulders, and cobbles?
The Manhattan Prong
The Adirondacks
The Catskills
Long Island
- 36. Multiple Choice
Half-life
time for all of the radioactive sample to decay
time for half of the radioactive sample to decay
time for a quarter of the radioactive sample to decay
- 37. Multiple Choice
Carbon-14 is used to date
plants and animals less than 50,00 years old
rocks that are many millions of years old
- 38. Multiple Choice
A substance with a higher specific heat takes
less time to heat up/cool down
more time to heat up/cool down
- 39. Multiple Choice
Metals have a ____ specific heat.
lower
higher
- 40. Multiple Choice
An orbit with a higher eccentricity =
more circular
more oval-like/elliptical
- 41. Multiple Choice
Higher gradient =
flatter land
steeper land
- 42. Multiple Choice
Rate of change =
distance/change in field value
change in field value/distance
- 43. Multiple Choice
Water absorbs the most energy during
melting
freezing
condensation
vaporization
- 44. Multiple Choice
Water releases the most energy during
melting
freezing
condensation
vaporization
- 45. Multiple Choice
Density of water at 3.98 degrees C =
0 g/ml
1 g/ml
10 g/ml
- 46. Multiple Choice
What is the most abundant element in the hydrosphere by volume?
oxygen
silicon
hydrogen
nitrogen
- 47. Multiple Choice
What is the most abundant element in the troposphere by volume?
oxygen
silicon
hydrogen
nitrogen
- 48. Multiple Choice
Plateau (Upland) =
high horizontal sedimentary rock
low igneous rock
high metamorphic rock
- 49. Multiple Choice
Plain (lowland) =
low horizontal sedimentary rock
low igneous rock
high metamorphic rock
- 50. Multiple Choice
Mountain (Highland) =
high horizontal sedimentary rock
high igneous/metamorphic rock
low horizontal sedimentary rock
- 51. Multiple Choice
Adirondack Mountains =
sedimentary rock
igneous rock
metamorphic rock
- 52. Multiple Choice
Hudson Highlands =
sedimentary rock
igneous rock
metamorphic rock
- 53. Multiple Choice
Oldest rock in New York state
Cambrian
Silurian
Middle Proterozoic
- 54. Multiple Choice
Surface Ocean Currents in the Northern Hemisphere move
clockwise
counterclockwise
- 55. Multiple Choice
Surface Ocean Currents in the Southern Hemisphere move
clockwise
counterclockwise
- 56. Multiple Choice
Transform plate boundary
plates move apart
plates move together
plates move side by side
- 57. Multiple Choice
Divergent plate boundary
plates move apart
plates move together
plates move side by side
- 58. Multiple Choice
Convergent plate boundary
plates move apart
plates move together
plates move side by side
- 59. Multiple Choice
Magma rises/new rock forms at
mid-ocean ridges
oceanic trenches
- 60. Multiple Choice
Rock subducts at
mid-ocean ridges
oceanic trenches
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