January 2020 Earth Science Regents Questions 31-40 Question Preview (ID: 54998)

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Which diagram below best represents the surface features developed in a humid climate?

a) 1

b) 2

c) 3

d) 4

The streambank on the outside of this meander is steeper than the streambank on the inside of this meander because the water on the outside of this meander is moving

a) slower, causing more deposition

b) slower, causing more erosion

c) faster, causing more deposition

d) faster, causing more erosion

What is the texture of an igneous rock formed from magma that cooled slowly deep underground?

a) nonvesicular and coarse

b) nonvesicular and glassy

c) vesicular and fine

d) vesicular and very coarse

Which two factors most likely caused this landslide?

a) wind action and meandering streams

b) wind action and movement of glacial ice

c) gravity and sand blasting of bedrock

d) gravity and saturated soil

Rock X is most likely

a) breccia

b) slate

c) metaconglomerate

d) vesicular basalt

Which two forms of electromagnetic energy are used to produce the most spectacular fluorescence when placed in darkness?

a) microwaves and x rays

b) microwaves and infrared

c) ultraviolet and x rays

d) ultraviolet and infrared

Which two minerals can have the same fluorescent color?

a) calcite and celestine

b) calcite and zincite

c) celestine and willemite

d) celestine and zincite

The mineral zincite will scratch

a) calcite, but will not scratch celestine and willemite

b) willemite, but will not scratch calcite and celestine

c) calcite and celestine, but will not scratch willemite

d) willemite and celestine, but will not scratch calcite

Which two locations have the same solar time?

a) A and B

b) B and D

c) C and E

d) D and E

From which location would an observer never see Polaris in the nighttime sky?

a) A

b) B

c) C

d) D

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