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Which statement best explains why dinosaur fossils have not been found in the bedrock in the area around Syracuse, New York?

a) Fossils are found only in sedimentary rock.

b) In the Syracuse area, dinosaur bones are located deep below the Earth's surface.

c) The dinosaurs were mobile and left no remains in the Syracuse area.

d) No rock record exists in the Syracuse area for the time period when the dinosaurs lived.

Most of the surface bedrock found in New York State was formed during which era?

a) Precambrian

b) Paleozoic

c) Mesozoic

d) Cenozoic

The most complete fossil record of past invertebrate life in New Jersey can be found in rocks of which era?

a) Cenozoic

b) Mesozoic

c) Precambrian

d) Paleozoic

According to current knowledge of New York State fossils, during which geologic time period were these footprints most probably made?

a) Cambrian

b) Devonian

c) Cretaceous

d) Triassic

At which location in New York State are evaporite rocks found under the surface bedrock?

a) Old Forge

b) Jamestown

c) Massena

d) Kingston

The presence of these evaporite rocks indicates that the shaded areas on the map at some time in the past were

a) high mountain ranges

b) glacial ice sheets

c) shallow seas

d) mid-ocean ridges

What is the age of most of the surface bedrock found in New York State at a latitude of 45º?

a) Precambrian Middle Proterozoic

b) Triassic and Jurassic

c) Silurian and Devonian

d) Cambrian and Ordovician

Which two mountain-building episodes could have been responsible for deforming these rock layers?

a) Grenville and Taconian orogenies

b) Taconian and Acadian orogenies

c) Acadian and Appalachian orogenies

d) Appalachian and Grenville orogenies

In which New York State landscape region have fossilized footprints of Coelophysis dinosaurs been found in the surface bedrock?

a) Allegheny Plateau

b) Tug Hill Plateau

c) Hudson-Mohawk Lowlands

d) Newark Lowlands

The presence of both the eurypterids and the dolostone indicates that, during the formation of this rock layer, this region of New York State was

a) covered by evaporating shallow seas

b) uplifted and eroded

c) buried beneath lava flows

d) intensely metamorphosed

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