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Jeopardy
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What is the age of the Earth?
4.5 - 4.6 billion years
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What is the duration of the Permian
period?
48 million years
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How old are the oldest known rocks?
About 4.2 billion years old.
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When did the devonian period begin?
416 million years ago.
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About 4 billion years.
How long did the precambrian eon last?
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During which period did the earliest insects appear?
Silurian
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When did the dinosaurs become extinct?
About 65 million years
ago.
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Why didn’t trilobites eat flowering plants?
Because trilobites became extinct before flowering
plants evolved.
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DAILY DAILY DOUBLEDOUBLE
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Why won’t you find fossils of the first mammal-like reptiles
in NYS?
Because there is no Permian rock in NYS.
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During which epoch did amphibians become abundant?
Late Mississippian
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What caused the Alleghanian orogeny?
The collision of North America and Africa
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During what period was the Adirondack region of New
York State uplifted?
Cretaceous
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During which era did North America completely separate
from Africa
Mesozoic
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When did the first evidence of biological carbon appear?
About 3.7 billion years ago
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During which epoch did the last period of glaciation occur?
Pleistocene
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About how old (in years) is the bedrock found at Oswego, NY?
Between 488 and 444 million years old
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What are 2 characteristics of an index fossil?
Wide distribution and on earth for a brief time.
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What does the presence of an unconformity always mean?
Part of the geologic rock record is missing.
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Diring which period of Earth history did the first coral reefs
form?
Ordovician
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To which city in NYS would you go to find fossils if the
earliest insects?
Syracuse or Niagara Falls
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Which term describes a landscape with high elevation
and horizontal bedrock structure?
Plateau
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Which kind of landscape is characterized by high
elevations, steep slopes and tilted bedrock?
Mountains
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The Catskills are part of which landscape region?
The Allegheny Plateau
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What name is given to a landscape region with low elevation and horizontal
bedrock structure?
Lowlands or Plains
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What is the range of age of the bedrock of the Erie Ontario
Lowlands?
488 to 416 million years old
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FINAL JEOPARDY
?
Official Stuff
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What is the name of the official NYS fossil ?
The Eurypterus