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What is the half-life of Rubidium?
4.9 x 10^10
What type of line represents a landscape region boundary?
Dotted Line
What does the warm current arrow look like?
What are the texture types of Igneous Rocks?
Glassy, Fine, Coarse, and Very Coarse
What era are we in?
Cenozoic
What is the New York State Fossil?
Eurypterus remipes
What direction is Long Island?
Southeast
What plate is the Hawaii Hot Spot on?
Pacific Plate
What is heat and pressure called?
Metamorphism
How many years ago were Earth's landmasses all towards the South of the Earth?
458 million years
What is the specific heat of Granite?
0.79 Joules/Gram
What two lakes are in the Interior Lowlands?
Lake Ontario and Lake Erie
Gulf Stream Current
What metamorphic rock has banding?
Gneiss
What era was the Triassic period in?
Mesozoic
What is the rate of change equation?
Rate of Change = Change in Value over Time
What time period did the rock in Syracuse form?
Silurian
What type of plate boundary is the Southeast Indian Ridge?
Divergent
Name two types of particles that water transports.
Boulders, Cobbles, Pebbles, Sand, Silt, Clay
What period and epoch the Earth have abundant fish?
Early Devonian
Name one property of water happens at 2260 J/g?
Heat energy gained during vaporization or Heat energy released during condensation.
What is the elevation near Buffalo?
175m
What type of current is the Oyashio Current?
Cool Water Current
How fast must a stream be flowing to transport sand?
1-5 cm/s
What period did dome like uplift of the Adirondack Region begin?
Cretaceous