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NYS Regents Questions On Geologic Time And Using Pages 2,3,8,9 In ESRT. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

Only a few dinosaur footprints have ever been found in NYS. Which landscape region must they have been located in?
a) Adirondack Mountains
b) Newark Lowlands
c) Allegheny Plateau
d) Tug Hill Plateau

An Eospirifer fossil was found in NYS bedrock. Which of the following is a possible latitude and longitude of it's location?
a) 42 degrees north, 76 degrees west
b) 43 degrees north, 74 degrees west
c) 43 degrees north, 77 degrees west
d) 44 degrees north, 76 degrees west

In which New York State landscape region is the gastropod fossil, Maclurites, most likely found in the surface bedrock?
a) Tug Hill Plateau
b) Allegheny Plateau
c) Adirondack Mountains
d) Newark Lowlands

The surface bedrock of the Tug Hill Plateau landscape region is mostly composed of
a) igneous rock of Silurian age
b) sediments of Pleistocene age
c) metamorphic rock of Precambrian age
d) sedimentary rock of Ordovician age

What is the geologic age sequence of the surface bedrock when traveling from Ithaca, New York, to Watertown, New York?
a) Ordovician, Taconic, Cambrian
b) Ordovician, Tertiary, Pleistocene
c) Devonian, Silurian, Cambrian
d) Devonian, Silurian, Ordovician

A Centroceras fossil was found in NYS bedrock. Which other fossil is most likely to be found in the same age bedrock?
a) Phacops
b) Coelophysis
c) Tetragraptus
d) Elliptocephala

In which landscape region would a eurypterid fossil most likely found?
a) Adirondack Mountains
b) Erie-Ontario Lowlands
c) Hudson Highlands
d) Newark Lowlands

During which time was the majority of the exposed bedrock in New York State deposited?
a) Precambrian
b) Mesozoic
c) Cenozoic
d) Paleozoic

Most of the surface bedrock in New York State south of latitude 43° N and west of longitude 75° W was formed during which period?
a) Silurian
b) Devonian
c) Cambrian
d) Ordovician

Which index fossil could be found in Rochester, NY?
a) Elliptocephala
b) Coelophysis
c) Cryptolythus
d) Centrocrinus

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