Name: ___________________________________________
Date/Time/Location of the Exam: _________________________________________________________
What to bring: A pencil, pen, basic calculator (non-graphing)
MINERALS AND ROCK TYPES
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Defining, comparing and contrasting minerals
Determining rock type and name given mineral composition
Rock Cycle
Determine rock types and names given characteristics
Igneous rocks: Intrusive vs. Extrusive, Mafic vs. Felsic
Contact metamorphic rocks vs. Regional metamorphic rocks
What a sedimentary rock turns into with added heat and pressure
PLATE TECTONICS, EARTH’S INTERIOR, EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES
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Locating plate boundaries on a map and in the ESRT
% of each elements in earth’s crust
Determine P-wave travel time, S-wave travel time, difference in travel times
Page 10 ESRT- layers of Earth, temperature, pressure, density, etc
Proofs of sea-floor spreading including reversal of the magnetic field over time
Types of plate boundaries and formations (ie. Volcanoes, earthquakes, etc) at each type
Refraction causes seismic waves to bend, causing the Shadow Zone and for the waves to not
reach certain locations
8. P-wave characteristics vs S-wave characteristics
9. Cause of the layers of Earth- in other words, what caused the layers to sort out as they did
10. Motion at the mid-ocean ridge
GEO HISTORY:
1. Cause of mass extinctions, especially the one that killed off the dinos
2. Use ESRT page 3 & page 8/9 to determine when/where a certain index fossil may have been
found
3. ESRT pages 8 & 9
4. Causes of unconformities
5. Type of bedrock found in certain NYS locations (ESRT pg 3)
6. Correlation/Relative dating given rock sequences and index fossils
7. Sequence of events
8. Half-lifes: decay products,
9. Volcanoes as geologic markers
10. First production of large quantities of oxygen
11. Fossils and their connection to past climates/environments
12. Definition of inclusion (in geologic history sequence of events notes)
MAPPING AND GRAPHING RELATIONSHIPS
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Topography: Determine highest elevation,
Polaris and latitude
Latitude and longitude using the ESRT or a map
Reading values off an isoline map
Draw a Topographic Profile
Plot points on a graph then state the type of relationship (direct, inverse, etc)
Determine the rate of change given data