Reading Geologic Profiles
Sequence of events
Fossils
Bedrock/ Landscapes
of NYS
Random
100
This law states that the oldest layers of rock are generally those at the bottom.
What is the law of superposition?
100
Humans formed in this epoch
What is Pleistocene.
100
This species became extinct in the late cretaceous period after a meteor hit Earth.
What is dinosaurs?
100
This metamorphic rock is almost exclusive to the island of Manhattan.
What is Manhattan schist?
100
Most of New York is covered by rocks that are a. Igneous b. Sedimentary c. Metamorphic
What is sedimentary?
200
Layers of rock usually settle in this direction.
What is horizontally?
200
This life form evolved before the other two. a. Dinosaurs b. Flowering plants c. Humans
What is dinosaurs?
200
This marine animal has been New York's state fossil since 1984.
What is Eurypterus Remipes?
200
Name at least two sedimentary rocks located near the finger lakes.
What is limestones, shales, sandstones and/ or conglomerate?
200
This super continent that once contained nearly all of Earth's landmass began to split up in the Jurassic period.
What is Pangea?
300
This event is when land pushes up due to pressure and forms a curve on the surface.
What is folding?
300
This period was the first period in the Mesozoic era.
What is the Triassic period?
300
This modern-day animal first appeared in the late Jurassic period.
What is birds?
300
This geologic period is not represented in New York state's bedrock.
What is Paleogene or Neogene?
300
This landscape region is where the Hudson river ends in the north of NYS.
What is the Adirondack Mountains?
400
This law states that the processes that operated in geologic past are similar to those we observe today. "The present is a key to the past."
What is the law of uniformitarianism?
400
This era began 65.5 million years ago , right after dinosaurs went extinct in the late Mesozoic era.
What is the Cenozoic era?
400
In 1905, scientists found and named this iconic fossil which lived during the Cretaceous period.
What is Tyrannosaurus Rex?
400
This landscape region in NYS was formed over several different geologic periods.
What is the Taconic Mountains
400
Because of this reason many scientists believe that dinosaurs would not have lasted much longer than they did if a meteor hadn't hit Earth.
What is volcanic activity?
500
This law states that anything that cuts across layers of rock is younger than the rocks that it has intruded into.
What is the law of cross-cutting?
500
This epoch is the most recent out of the rest of the epochs in Earth's history and is the epoch we currently live in today.
What is Holocene?
500
These factors make a fossil a good index fossil.
What is abundance, covering a lot of land and short life time?
500
This geologic period is when most of NYS's bedrock was formed.
What is Devonian?
500
Trilobites evolved in this period.
What is Early Cambrian?
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