Not Rocket Science
Geologic History
Climate Change
Natural Resources
100
Name this state
Colorado
100
What was the main cause the mass oxygenation event of the oceans that eventually led to the formation of life in the oceans.
describe the entire process.
cyanobacteria use photosynthesis that produced oxygen in the oceans
100
Trashketball:
Identify one greenhouse gas, and make a CLAIM why greenhouse gases are the major cause for global climate change?
CO2, Methane, Water Vapor, Sulfur Dioxide
Trap Heat
100
List a natural resource that is lost due to deforestation, and how this impacts humans in a negative way.
Wood
Cant build homes, structures, loss of habitats for animals which humans may hunt, less carbon in take from trees
200
Name this game
Duck Hunt
200
Trashkelball: Complete this question
4
200
List one positive feedback that would occur to the cryosphere in the Antarctic, if the average temperature continued to rise over the next 10 years.
Ice would melt, leading to more sunlight being absorbed causing more heat warming temperatures.
200
List one natural resource that is mined near Ithaca, NY?
Salt
300
Name this city? **Trashketball**
Dallas
300
The Giant Beaver (Castoroides) lived during the Pleistocene Epoch, roaming North America from about 2 million to 10,000 years ago. They shared the landscape with the earliest indigenous populations before vanishing at the end of the last Ice Age.
If a researcher was trying to determine the age of a Giant Beaver preserved in a glacier, which atomic isotope would be best? Also list the oldest possible Giant Beaver age using this isotope?
Carbon-14
70,000 years
300
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a massive system of ocean currents that acts as a global conveyor belt. It transports warm, salty water from the tropics northward to the North Atlantic, where the water cools, becomes dense, sinks, and circulates back south.
Which ocean current would need to be most disrupted for the the AMOC to weaken and disrupt global climate patterns due to the melting of Greenlands ice sheets?
East Greenland Current
300
Trashketball: Answer this question
1
400
Name this sport / event
Soap Box Derby
400
List one spatial feature where we would find Constructive geologic processes occurring and one spatial feature where would would find destructive geologic processes occurring within the earth's geosphere.
Constructive: Mid ocean ridge, volcanoes, hot spot volcano
Destructive: Trench, fault, subduction zones
400
Complete this question
1
400
Using evidence from your ESSRT, which New York State city would be most affected by the shut down of oil fracking laws
Jamestown, NY
500
What TV show is this?
Doug
500
What is the name of the T-Rex in the movie, "The Land Before Time?"
Shardtooth
500
We have studied that many land and mammal species have gone through mass extinctions over the past 500 million years. Make a claim to what scientists think is the likely cause of mass extinctions that occurred:
~ 360 million years ago: ___________________
~ 65 million years ago: ____________________
~ 360 million years ago: climate change due to global forests (oxygen)
~ 65 million years ago: asteroid impact
500
Rare Earth minerals mined in the Adirondacks are used in cell phones and other technologies. Give one piece of evidence to explain why it requires more energy and money to mine Rare Earth minerals compared to a mineral like Gypsum found in sedimentary rocks near Batavia, NY?
Rare Earth minerals are found in harder Metamorphic Rocks compared to sedimentary rocks which are more brittle and easy to extract.