The Frederick Douglass Academy
Earth Science/Mr. Valeiras/Pd.___
Name: _____________________________
Date: ______________Class:___________
How the Earth Was Made: New York
Directions: Fill out the questions and outline below as the movie is playing.
1. Why are buildings in downtown and midtown taller than other parts of the city?
2. What happened to the bedrock of New York City ?
3. What does this tell us about how it was formed?
4. How old is the rock?
5. What does the elongation of minerals in the rocks mean?
6. What was the rock in New York City crushed under?
7. Where was New York millions of years ago?
8. What continent did New York collide with?
9. When the bedrock is at ground level, what is the top level of rock made of?
10. Where was NYC 450 million years ago?
11. What type of fossil is found outside of New York City?
12. What type of rock was found on the top layer of the quarry? How is this rock
formed?
13. What type of rock are the Palisades made of?
The Frederick Douglass Academy
Earth Science/Mr. Valeiras/Pd.___
Name: _____________________________
Date: ______________Class:___________
14. On how many continents do these rock formations show up?
15. What was New York’s neighbor 200 million years ago?
16. List three ways that the volcanic lava flows affected Earth and its life:
a.
b.
c.
17. What moved the boulders from the Palisades into Central Park?
18. What formations on the rocks in Central Park show that glaciers moved in?
19. What was found at Bear Mountain?
20. How thick was the glacier?
21. What type of valley was the Hudson River before the glacier came though?
22. What did the glacier do to the Hudson River?
23. What did fisherman find at the mouth of the Hudson River?
24. What glacial formation used to exists between Staten Island and Long Island?
25. What caused the sediments to be moved and the mouth of the Hudson to open?
26. What is this opening called today?
27. How does Long Island become bad for NYC in a hurricane?