Name: _____________________________
Period _________
Score _______ /
86 pts. Possible
Chapter -2Utah’s Geologic History
The instructions are as follows:
1- Answer all questions completely. (If it takes a sentence to answer the question, write a sentence. Or if it takes a
paragraph to answer the question, write a paragraph. Write whatever is needed to be answered the question
completely.)
2- Copy down answers directly from the textbook, do not try and reinvent the wheel. It is not plagiarism to copy answers
from the book.
3- Do not use red, orange or pink pen or pencil on the study guide.
4- Do not share answers or copy off of anyone. Do your own work.
Initials:_____________
1. What covered Utah for millions of years?
(exact)
(2 pt.)
2. What 3 fossil fuels were being formed during this time?
(3 pts.)
3. What did Volcanoes bring up to the surface of the earth?
(3 pts.)
SHAPING THE LAND
4. What are geologists?
(2 pts.)
(exact)
5. What information did geologists use to divide the earth’s long life into different eras? (1 pt.)
6. The earliest known era is the _______________________.
(1 pt.)
7. List a close place in Utah where Precambrian rock can be found.
(1 pt.)
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8. Which era means “ancient life”?
(1 pt.)
9. What were fossil fuels formed from?
(1 pt.)
10. Many of these deposits of these fuels can be found in what two main places?
(2 pts.)
11. Which era were the Dinosaurs roaming the land?
(1 pt.)
12. Which mountain range was formed during the Mesozoic era?
(1 pt.)
13. What replaced the Dinosaurs during the Cenozoic era?
(1 pt.)
14. What happened to Utah during the Ice Age?
(1 pt.)
Ancient Seas and Sandstorms
15. Shallow seas covered much of __________________ including ___________.
(2 pts.)
16. What is sediment?
(exact)
(1 pt.)
17. As Utah region slowly lifted, what happened to the shallow seas?
(1 pt.)
18. What is Utah’s oldest living animal fossils called?
(1 pt.)
19. What is limestone composed of?
(1 pt.)
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DINOSAURS
20. _____________ new species of Dinosaurs have been discovered in the past few years.
(1 pt.)
21. A newly discovered carnivore with huge slashing claws is named the _________________. (1 pt.)
22. Where can scientist store 1000’s of dinosaur bones form Utah’s quarries?
(1 pt.)
23. What 5 herbivore dinosaurs lived in Utah?
(5 pts.)
24. What are 3 carnivorous dinosaurs?
(3 pts.)
NATURAL FORCES SHAPE UTAH’S MOUNTAINS AND PLATEAUS
25. How was the Rocky Mountains formed?
(1 pt.)
26. How did this happen?
(exact)
(2 pts.)
27. What percent of Utah’s population lives near the Wasatch Fault?
(1 pt.)
28. What 3 universities in Utah are built along the Wasatch front?
(3 pt.)
29. Underground volcanic activity lifted large pieces of the earth’s crust without breaking through the
surface, causing isolated regions of scattered mountains. What 3 mountain ranges in Utah were
caused by this?
(3 pt.)
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30. ____________________ __________ came from deep inside the earth.
(1 pt.)
31. Rock that pushes up through the earth’s crust is called ___________.
(1 pt.)
32. Are Utah’s volcanoes active today? What are they?
(2 pts.)
33. Utah has a rich store of metals and minerals such as ____________, _______________, ______________
and ____________.
(4 pt.)
34. What did President Lincoln say about Utah?
(1 pt.)
UTAH’S ROCK AND MINERAL RESOURCES
35. How were fossil fuels formed?
(1 pt.)
36. How much Salt does Utah have?
(1 pt.)
37. What 6 - minerals give Utah a tremendous supply of building stones?
(6 pts.)
38. Where was large coal fields discovered in the early 1880’s?
(1 pt.)
ICE AGE
39. What formed in the Uinta and Wasatch mountains during the Ice Age?
(1 pt.)
40. How did we get many of our mountain lakes?
(1 pt.)
(exact)
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41. What are the 3 major remnants of Lake Bonneville?
(3 pts.)
42. List 5 animals that lived during the Ice Age.
(5 pts.)
43. Describe in detail the difference between a mammoth and a mastodon?
(exact)
(3 pts.)
NATURAL FORCES AFFECT THE ENVIRONMENT TODAY
44. What are the 5 main agents of erosion?
45. How many Earthquakes do we have a year?
(5 pts.)
(exact)
(2 pts.)
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