Earth Science Reference Tables Review 4/28

You found a rock that has random intergrown crystals the size of 4mm and contains only Pyroxene and Olivine. What is it?

Which Earth material has the highest specific heat?

Which color light has the shortest wavelength?

What landscape region is located at 42 degrees 15 minutes North, 74 degrees 30 minutes West?

What warm ocean current flows northward along the east coast of the U.S.?

What happens to atmospheric pressure as you go from the troposphere to the thermosphere?

Which surface ocean current transports cool water to lower latitudes?

If I am 9000 km away from the epicenter of an earthquake, how long would it take for an S-wave to hit me?

What kind of tectonic-plate boundary runs along South America’s western coast?

In what geologic period did the massive continent of Pangea begin to break up?

In which geologic period did maclurites exist?

What is the specific heat of Pb (hint: look on the back page to find what Pb is)?

A subduction zone is associated with what type of plate boundary?

Which phase change of water requires the ADDITION of the GREATEST amount of heat?

What landscape region is located in the south-western part of New York state ?

Where in New York state could metamorphic rock be found that dates back to the Middle Proterozoic era?

What is the relative humidity if the dry-bulb temperature is 18 degrees and the wet-bulb temperature is 19 degrees?

What is the name of a mineral that is white to pink, cleaves in 2 directions at 90 degrees & used in ceramics?

What term is used for the boundary between the rigid mantle and the crust?

What is the density of Earth’s basaltic oceanic crust?

Which color has the longest wavelength?

Which geologic period did dinosaurs and ammonoids exist together?

Which clastic sedimentary rock contains the greatest range of particle sizes?

Together, the crust and the rigid mantle are part of the...

What stream velocity would be needed to maintain the movement of a 1.0cm particle through a stream?