Name: ______ Earth Science Reference Table Worksheet

Name: ______Earth Science Reference Table Worksheet

1. If you add the same amount of heat energy to equal masses of basalt, water, copper and iron, which will heat the fastest? Which will heat the slowest?

1. How much energy is needed to melt 45g of ice at 0ºC?

1. How much energy is needed to boil 45g of water at 100ºC?

1. What is the density if a sample of rock has a mass of 69g and a volume of 23ml?

1. Which has the greatest half life, carbon-14, potassium-40 or uranium-238?

1. What type of rocks make up the majority of the Allegheny Plateau?

1. Rock from the Tug Hill Plateau was formed at the same time as which other area of New York?

1. Which area of New York contains rocks that were formed during the Middle Proterozoic Era?

1. Which area of New York is made up of gravels, sands and clays?

1. What is the approximate latitude and longitude of Mt. Marcy?

1. What type of current is found on the west side of South America?

1. What is the name of the current located at 30ºN 15ºW?

1. What direction do the ocean currents circulate in the northern hemisphere?

1. Is the Brazil current a warm or cold water current?

1. What is the latitude of the Hawaiian hot spot?

1. What direction is the South American plate moving in?

1. What type of boundary is the East Pacific Ridge?

1. Which part of the United States can you find a transform boundary?

1. Which plate is more dense the Nazca or South American plate?

1. How does igneous rock form?

1. Sedimentary rock that is subjected to heat and pressure changes into what type of rock?

1. How does igneous rock become sedimentary rock?

1. Particle sizes from 0.2cm to 6.4cm are classified as what type of sediment?

1. What are the largest sized particles that can be moved by a river traveling at 100cm/sec?

1. What is the range of particle sizes for silt?

1. What name is given to a light colored, coarse textured igneous rock?

1. What name is given to a dark colored intrusive igneous rock?

1. Dunite is made up of what type of mineral?

1. What mineral is the major component of Andesite?

1. What type of sedimentary rock contains particles that are very fine grained?

1. Sediments that have a size between 0.006 and 0.2 cm will form what type of rock?

1. Sediments that have a size of 0.0002 cm will form what type of rock?

1. What type of rock is made from carbon?

1. What mineral is rock salt made from?

1. What would a fine grained, foliated, metamorphic rock be called?

1. What rock is formed when limestone undergoes metamorphism?

1. What era did the dinosaurs live in?

1. What period are we currently in?

1. What period are the earliest birds believed to have originated in?

1. What era did the Atlantic Ocean begin to open?

1. What is the density of the outer core of the earth?

1. What two metals are believed to make up the inner core of the earth?

1. What layer of the earth surrounds the outer core?

1. What happens to the pressure as you travel toward the center of the earth?

1. What happens to the temperature as you travel toward the center of the earth?

1. Is the earth a solid or a liquid at a depth of 3500km?

1. What is the most abundant element in the earth’s crust?

1. What is the most abundant element in the troposphere?

1. How far away from an earthquake are you if it takes 5 minutes for the p-wave to arrive at your location?

1. If it the s-wave arrives 3 minutes and 20 seconds after the p-wave, how far from the earthquake are you?

1. If you are 7600km from the epicenter of an earthquake, how long did it take the p-wave to reach you?

1. If you are 2000km from the epicenter of an earthquake and the p-wave reaches you at 2:10:00pm, what time will the s-wave reach your location?

1. If the temperature is 14ºC and the wet bulb temperature is 10ºC, what is the dew point and what is the relative humidity?

1. If the dew point is 20ºC and the temperature is 24ºC what is the wet bulb temperature, and what is the relative humidity?

1. Convert 60ºF to ºC

1. Convert 996.0mb to inches of Hg

1. What is the symbol for a maritime tropical air mass?

1. cP is the symbol for what type of air mass?

1. What happens to the temperature as you rise up through the troposphere?

1. What happens to the pressure as you rise up through the troposphere?

1. What happens to the water vapor content as you rise up through the troposphere?

1. Which wavelength of visible light has the longest wavelength?

1. Which latitudes do you find sinking air?

1. What color are the hottest stars?

1. How long is a day on Mars?

1. How long is a year on Neptune?

1. Which planet’s orbit around the sun is the most circular?

1. How does the density of the inner planets compare to the densities of the outer planets?

1. Which mineral can be scratched by gypsum?

1. What mineral(s) would be a good choice for use in sand paper?

1. What metallic iron ore produces a reddish brown streak?