Mapping
Rocks and Minerals
Plate Tectonics
Landscapes
Surface Processes
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What is the highest point on the map?
What is D?
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A extrusive felsic rock that is vesicular and glassy is?
What is Pumice?
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What type of boundary occurs at the Aleutian Trench?
What is a convergent plate boundary?
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Lake George is located in which generalized landscape region?
What is the Adirondack Mountains?
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How does size affect permeability?
What is as size increases permeability increases?
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What is the contour interval of this map?
What is 100 ft?
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What mineral is made up of ONLY sodium and chlorine?
What is Halite?
2
If an earthquake epicenter distance is 4000 kilometers away how long does it take for the S wave to arrive?
What is 12 minutes and 40 seconds?
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What geologic period is Watertown located in?
What is Ordovician?
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How does size affect porosity?
What is it doesn't
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What is the altitude of Polaris at the Bouvet Hot Spot?
What is: you can't see it?
3
This bioclastic rock is made of compacted plant remains.
What is bituminous coal?
3
What forms the Mid Atlantic Ridge?
What is divergent plate boundaries pulling away from each other.
3
Slide mountain is located in which generalized landscape region?
What is the Catskills?
3
Smaller particles have more what? hint; three possible answers
What is weathering, retention, capillarity
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What is the longitude AND latitude of Bouvet Hot Spot?
What is approximately 5 East and 53 South?
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Why does marble fizz?
It is made of limestone which contains calcite.
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What do a transform plate boundary cause?
What is a fault?
4
What is the difference between a plateau and a mountain?
What is a plateau is sedimentary horizontally layered bedrock and a mountain is metamorphic rock?
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Factors that increase porosity are? Hint: there are three
1. Rounded Sediments
2. Sorted Sediments
3. Less Compacted
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What is located at 43 20" N 76 30" W?
What is Oswego?
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What metamorphic rock is composed of mica, quartz feldspar, amphibole, and garnet?
What is Phyllite?
5
What is a hot spot?
What is magma leaking from the mantle?
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Why does the Tug Hill Plateau get a larger amount of snow than other places in New York?
What is lake effect snow from Lake Ontario?
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What makes the ground impermeable? (You must name all six)
1. Frozen
2. Concrete or pavement
3. Compaction
4. Lack of vegetation
5. Ground saturated
6. Steep slope