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How to play “Earth Science Battleship”Divide the class into two teams, Red and Purple. Choose which team goes first.The main screen is divided into 49 boxes. The first team chooses a box by letterand number, E4 for instance.

Click on the ‘Q’ at the center of the square. Becareful to click only on the ‘Q’. A question will appear.

IF the team answers the question correctly, click on ‘return to board’. This will take you back to the main game board.

Now click anywhere else in the box (except the ‘Q’).The box will disappear and you find out if youhit and destroyed one of the enemy ships.

If the team did not answer the question correctly simply return to the main board and allow the other team to choose a box and answer a question.

The first team to successfully “sink” all four of the other team’s ships wins.

The RED team must sink purple ships and the PURPLE team must sink red ships.

(if you’re playing at home to review, click on ‘answer’ for the correct response)

Each team or the team captain must be told which squares hide their ships.(see notes below this slide)

Get out your reference tables. Let’s play!

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Question A1

Erosion

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What process is most directly responsiblefor the formation of line A-B?

Question A2

Igneous intrusion 3

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Which is the youngest rock in the diagram?(give number)

Question A3

Fossil #4

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Columns A, B, & C are out-crops of rock from differentareas. Each rock layer isfrom a different time period.Which fossil found in theserocks would make a goodindex fossil?

Question A4

Line B

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Which line represents an unconformity?

Question A5

Between layers A & BANSWER

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Between which 2 rock layers is part of the rock record missing?

Question A6

Rapid deposition and wide distribution

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Which 2 characteristics of a volcanic ash layer wouldmake it a good time marker?

Question A7

Element D

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Which radioactiveelement shown in thegraph has the longesthalf life?

Question B1

4.5 x 109 years (4.5 billion)

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What is the half life ofelement B?

Question B2

Pattern 2

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Which drainage patternwould probably developin the landscape shownin the diagram?

Question B3

Layer D

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Which is the youngest rock layer shown?

Question B4

5.7 x 103 years (5,700)

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How much time isrepresented by letter A?

Question B5

A, B, D, C

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Arrange the layers in order from oldest to youngest.

Question B6

Folding and erosionANSWER

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Which two geologic processes occurred between the depositionof layers G through C and layer B?

Question B7

2.6 billion years

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How long is 2 halve lives of this radioactive substance?

Question C1

Permian, Paleocene, or Neocene

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Name a geologic Period for which no rockor sediment record exists in New York State.

Question C2

Uranium 238

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According to the Earth Science Reference Tables, which radioactive element, formed at the time of the Earth's origin, has just reached about one half-life?

Carbon 14 dating

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Question C3

A log is found incorporated in a sequence of layered sediments at the bottom of a lake. Which method would most accurately locate the time period when the tree was living?

Question C4

Syracuse & possibly Niagara Falls

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Rocks containing fossils of the earliest terrestrial plants could most likely be found in the bedrock near which city in New York State?

Question C5

Old Forge

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According to the Reference Tables, near which community in New York State would you be least likely to find fossils?

Question C6

Uranium-238

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Element B is probably.....

Question C7

Uniformitarianism

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The physical and chemical conditions which long ago produced changes on the Earth's surface are still producing changes today. This statement is one way of stating the principle of...............................

Question D1

Overturning has occurred

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In a certain section of sedimentary rock, fossil dating shows that older rock layers are on top of younger rock layers. This relationship indicates that...................

Question D2

The region has been uplifted

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An observer discovers shallow-water fossils in rock strata at an elevation of 5,000 meters. What is the best explanation for this observation?

Question D3

11,400 years

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A geologist uses carbon-14 to measure the age of material found in a sedimentary deposit. How old is the sample shows if only 25% of the original carbon-14 remains?

Question D4

184.5 million years

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What is the estimated length of time of the Mesozoic Era?

Question D5

Choice 4

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Which two forms of life existed together on the Earth during the same time period?

1) Dinosaurs and mastodonts. 2) Trilobites and birds.

3) Flowering plants and trilobites.

4) Mastodonts and flowering plants.

Choice 1 because fossils arenot found in igneous rock.

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Question D6

In which bedrock unit are fossils least likely to be found AND explain why. 1) Triassic granite 2) Permian conglomerate 3) Ordovician shale 4) Cambrian sandstone

Question D7

The organisms that produced them hadwide distribution but lived on Earth for arelatively brief time.

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What are the TWO characteristics of index fossils that makethem useful for correlating rock strata?

Question E1

Layer C

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Which layer shows the greatest evidence of erosion?

Question E2

Choice 4

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Which stream drainage pattern is most commonly found inareas with nearly level land surface?

Question E3

A - C - B

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The data table shows fossils found in 3 layers of sedimentary rock.The relative age of the layers from oldest to youngest is............

Question E4

Graph 4

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Diagram 1 shows part of a geologic map.Diagram 2 shows a cross section along lineC-D. No overturning has occurred. Whichgraph represents the age of the surfacebedrock along line C-D?

Question E5

Choice 3

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Which is the best indexfossil?

Question E6

Graph 1

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Which graph best represents the decay of Uranium-238 into Lead-206?

Question E7

2000 years

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The diagram represents bothdecayed and undecayed atomsin a sample of material that wasoriginally 100% undecayed. If thehalf life of this material is 1000years, how old is the sample?

Question F1

Choice 1

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Which stream-drainage patterndeveloped on the surface of anewly formed volcano?

Question F2

High elevation and flat bedrock structure

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What are the TWO characteristics that would classify aregion as a plateau?

Question F3

Adirondack or Taconic mountains

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The photograph shows bedrock thathas been tilted and subjected tolong periods of heat and pressure.In which New York State landscaperegion might bedrock like this befound?

Question F4

Choice 3

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Which event occurred earliest in geologic history?

1) Appearance of the earliest grasses.

2) Intrusion of the Palisades Sill.

3) The collision of North America and Avalon.

4) Appearance of the earliest birds.

Question F5

Graph 2

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Which graph shows the relative duration of geologic time forthe eras shown?

Question F6

Adirondack Mountains

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In which landscape region of New York State arelarge crystals of Garnet commonly found?

Question F7

Triassic or Carboniferous(no Permian rock in NYS)

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The diagram shows rock layers located inNew York State. No overturning has occurred.Layer 2 is Triassic. Layer 4 is Carboniferous.In what Period of geologic history mightrock layer 3 have been formed?

Question G1

The fossil record (life on Earth)

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Geologists have subdivided geologic time intoPeriods based on.................

Question G2

The area was under water

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Fossils of Cryptolithus are discovered in the Ordovicianlimestone at Watertown, New York. What can be inferredabout the environment at that location at the time thesefossils were produced?

Question G3

D - A - C - B

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The diagrams below show the same regions at four differentstages of its history. Arrange the diagrams in the most likely sequence showing erosion and river development .

Question G4

High elevation - Tilted bedrock - Steep slopes

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Name any TWO characteristics of a mountain landscape?

Question G5

From 542 to 488 million years ago

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A fossil represents the earliest fish. How many millions of years ago could the rock layer containing this fossil have formed?

Question G6

Either Carboniferous or Silurian.

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The diagram shows rock layersfound in New York State. Layer Bis not Devonian. During which periodof geologic history could layer Bhave formed?

Question G7

Overturning

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The drill core (geologic cross section) shownin the diagram shows evidence of whatgeologic process?

From RegentsEarth.com How to play “Earth Science Battleship” Divide the class into two teams, Red and Purple. Choose which team goes first. The main.

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