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ESRT Worksheet Earth Science Mrs. Giorgianni Name: ____________________________________ Date: _____________ Period: _______ The answers to ALL of the following questions can be found in your ESRTs [Earth Science Reference Tables]. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1. What are the top three elements found in the Earth’s crust by mass? [List percentages] 1. _________________ 2. _________________ 3. _________________ 2. What are the top three elements found in the Earth’s crust by volume? [List percentages] 1. _________________ 2. _________________ 3. _________________ 3. What composes the Earth’s inner core? __________________________________________________ 4. At what temperature does ice melt? ______________________________________________________ 5. Name six warm ocean currents: 1. _______________________________ 2. _______________________________ 3. _______________________________ 4. 5. 6. _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ 6. What type of boundary is the East Pacific Ridge? ___________________________________________ 7. What is the size range for a particle to be classified as silt? ____________________________________ 8. What type of rock contains platy mica crystals? _____________________________________________ 9. In what period did the Catskill Delta form? _________________________________________________ 10. If a P Wave arrives at a seismograph station 4,000 miles from its epicenter, what was its travel time? _______ 11. If the dry-bulb temperature is 10°C and the Wet-bulb temperature is 5°C, what is the relative humidity? [Pay close attention to the chart’s wording . . . ] ___________ 12. What mineral has a composition of CaCO3? _________________________________ 13. How much energy does water gain during melting? ___________________________ 14. What types of rocks are found in the Adirondack Mountains? ________________________________ 15. What continents does the equator pass through? __________________________________________ 16. Name the ocean current off the coast of England? __________________________________________ 17. Is this current warm or cold? _____________________________________ 18. What feature is found at most divergent plate boundaries? __________________________________ 19. What type of rock is formed from the solidification of magma? _______________________________ ESRT Worksheet/Giorgianni 1 20. What is the minimum steam velocity necessary to carry all sizes of sediments? __________________ 21. What texture is associated with intrusive rocks? ____________________________________ 22. What epoch were we in 20 million years ago? ______________________________________ 23. Convert 25 C to Fahrenheit __________________________ and to Kelvin ______________________ 24. Draw a weather station and label the following conditions: - 50% cloud cover - Wind speed: 25 knots from the NW - Temperature 72F - Barometric pressure 172 - Present weather: drizzle 25. What is the formula for density? _________________________________________________ 26. The Allegheny Plateau is in what state? _________________________________________ 27. What are the coordinates of Old Forge, NY in degrees and minutes? __________________________ 28. What do the arrows on the world map on page 4 indicate? __________________________________ 29. What geological feature is found at the boundary of the Philippine Plate? _________________________ 30. What is the texture and color of Obsidian? _________________________________________ 31. What is limestone composed of? _______________________________________________ 32. Name an example of a foliated rock? _________________________________________ 33. During which period were the earliest birds found? ____________________________________ 34. During which era did the Atlantic Ocean form? ___________________________________________ 35. What is the density of Earth’s inner core [be sure to include units!]? ____________________________ 36. What is the percent by volume of hydrogen in the hydrosphere? ___________________________ 37. If a P wave is 7 x 103 km from the epicenter, what was its travel time? __________________________ 38. If the dry bulb temperature is 18 and the difference between the wet and dry bulb is 11, what is the relative humidity? _____________________________________ 39. Convert 992.0 millibars to inches: _____________________________________________ 40. Which color of the electromagnetic spectrum has the shortest wavelength? ______________________ 41. In the Northern hemisphere, what direction do the wind belts shift in the summer? __________________ 42. What is the color and temperature of the star Sirius? ______________________________________ 43. What is the chemical symbol for lead? _____________________________________________ ESRT Worksheet/Giorgianni 2 44. The specific heat of which material is 0.11 cal/gm C? ___________________________ 45. What is the New York State fossil? _____________________________________ 46. What states border New York? __________________________________________________________ 47. What is the name of the current that flows off the coast of Florida? ______________________________ 48. What are the coordinates of the Yellowstone Hot Spot? _______________________________________ 49. Sedimentary rock is formed by ________________________________________________________ 50. Which solar system object has the longest period of rotation? _____________ Shortest? __________ 51. The rock Peridotite has what type of texture? __________________________________ 52. Marble if formed from the metamorphism of what other rocks? ________________________________ 53. Humans, mastodons and mammoths appeared in which epoch? ______________________________ 54. Earth’s actual temperature at a depth of 3000 km is __________________ degrees Celsius. 55. List room temperature in __________(F) ____________ (C) and __________ (Kelvin) 56. Which layer of the atmosphere if found 25 miles above sea level? _________________________ 57. Which stars are hotter, red giants or white dwarfs? __________________________________ 58. The greatest number of moons is found around ______________________________________ 59. The distinguishing characteristic of calcite is that it ______________________________________ 60. Rubidium-87 has a half-life of _____________________ years. 61. Name a non-foliated rock that contains quartz: _______________________________________ 62. Draw the symbol for a warm front: _______________________________________ 63. Draw the symbol for a cold front: _________________________________________ 64. What is the density of continental crust? ___________gm/cm3 Oceanic crust? ___________ gm/cm3 65. What is the length of this line ----------------------------------------------------- in centimeters? ____________ 66. Convert 30 knots into mile/per hour _________________________________________ 67. List the symbols for the following air masses: Maritime Tropical _______ ; Continental Polar _______ 68. Draw the symbol for rain showers: _________________________________ 69. Draw the symbol for a hurricane: ______________________________________ 70. Where is the NYS Department of Education? __________________________________________ 71. What is the formula for calculating percent deviation? _______________________________________ ESRT Worksheet/Giorgianni 3 72. What is the density of water? _________________________________ 73. The specific heat of copper is _____________________________________ . 74. Rubidium-87 has a half-life of ____________________________________ 75. The generalized bedrock geology of the Allegheny Plateau is _________________________________ . 76. Are the West Wind Drift currents warm or cool? _________________________________ 77. Which plate is between the Eurasian Plate and the African Plate? _____________________________ 78. Describe a pegmatite texture ___________________________________________ 79. The three types of rocks are _____________________________________________________________ . 80. What era are the periods Cretaceous, Jurassic and Triassic in? __________________________________ 81. Where in Earth’s interior do we find iron and nickel _________________________________________. 82. How much of the hydrosphere is oxygen? _________________________________ 83. If it’s 300° Kelvin, what is the temperature in Celsius? _________________________________ 84. The altitude of the Mesopause in miles is ______________________________ . 85. What type of star is our sun? _________________________________________. 86. Which planet has the slowest revolution? _________________________________________ 87. What are the two types of mineral luster? ___________________________________________________ 88. Radioactive Decay Data, Specific Heat and properties of water are all _____________________________. 89. Mt. Marcy has what type of rock? ____________________________________ 90. The Canary Islands Hot Spot is located off which continent? _________________________________ 91. Particles with a size range of 25.6 – 100.0 are _____________________________________ 92. Are mafic rocks high or low density? ____________________________________ 93. What type of rock only forms from contact metamorphism? ____________________________________ 94. During which period did Earth’s first coral reef appear? ____________________________ 95. What is the volume of Calcium in Earth’s crust? ___________________________ 96. What is the symbol for a cold front? ____________________________________________ 97. Which has shorter wavelengths, gamma rays or radio waves? ________________________ 98. How many moons does Saturn have? ____________________________________ 99. Sirius has an approximate temperature of __________________________ 100. What does ESRT stand for ??!!! ________________________________________________! ESRT Worksheet/Giorgianni 4