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Cycle III Homework Schedule

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Earth's Shape, Size, and Surface Fact Sheet

Mid-Winter Recess Holiday Homework

Minerals and Mineral Identification Homework

Common Minerals: Images and Characteristics

Rock Classification and Interpretation: Principles and Practices

Interpretation of Rock Environments

Interpretation of Geologic History: Stratigraphic Principles

Structural Geology I: Tilted, Faulted, and Folded Strata

Structural Geology II: Unconformities

Structural Geology III: Concepts of Stress and Strain

Structural Geology IV: Analysis of Deformed Rocks

Seismology I: Basic Principles and Quantification of Earthquakes

Cycle II Laboratories Schedule

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Cycle II Homework Schedule

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Tutorials

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Field Trips

Pyrite Crystals in Limestone

Syracuse

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Links

Brooklyn Weather Forecast by Intellicast

Minerals of the Reference Tables: Photo Identification

Rocks of the Reference Tables: Photo Identification

Landfill, Stratigraphy and Geologic Time: A Practical Application of the Principles of Stratigraphy to Forensic Geology (Laboratory Exercise and Tutorial)

Graphical Display and Interpretation of Ground-Based NYS Weather Data (Laboratory Exercise and Tutorial)

Graph Paper on a Sphere: The System of Lines Known as Latitude and Longitude (Laboratory Exercise and Tutorial)

Duke Labs' "On the Rocks" Regional Field Trips

Reading the Earth Science Reference Tables Exercise and Exam Series

Landscapes and Bedrock Geology of NYS (Part I)

Igneous Rock Identification, Classification, and Interpretation (Part II)

Sedimentary Rock Identification, Classification, and Interpretation (Part III)

Metamorphic Rock Identification, Classification, and Interpretation (Part IV)

Seismic Wave Travel Times and Epicentral Distances (Part V)

The Electromagnetic Spectrum (Part VI)

Tectonic Plates (Part VII)

Solar System Data: Dimensions, Motions, and Densities (Part VIII)

Average Chemical Composition of Earth's Crust, Hydrosphere, and Troposphere (Part IX)

Comprehensive ESRT Test I (Part X)

Comprehensive ESRT Test II - Rocks (Part XI)

Geologic History of New York State (Part XII)

Relative Humidity and Dewpoint Temperature (Part XIII)

Luminosity and Temperature of Stars (Part XIV)

Temperature, Pressure, and Weather Station Models (Part XV)

Relationship of Transported Particle Size to Water Velocity (Part XVI)

The Rock Cycle (Part XVII)

Selected Properties of Earth's Atmosphere (Part XVIII)

Planetary Wind and Moisture Belts in the Troposphere (Part XIX)

Properties of Common Minerals (Part XX)

Surface Ocean Currents (Part XXI)

Properties of the Earth's Interior (Part XXII)

Weather Station Models (Part XXIII)

Exercises in the Reading, Coding, and Recording

of Atmospheric [Weather] Data (Part XXIV)

Geologic Map

New York State

Latitude (East-West)

Longitude (North-South)

North Pole

South Pole

East

West

John Dewey High School

Cirrus Clouds

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Clouds

Warm

Air

Cold

Air

Insolation

Sun

Rain

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Air

Alfred Wegener

Proponent of Continental Drift

Volcanic

Arc

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Pyrite Crystals in Dolostone

Syracuse, NY

Convergent Plate Margin

Oceanic Lithosphere Subducted Beneath Contnental Lithosphere

Apparent Motion of the Sun

Sun's Apparent Motion from the Winter Solstice to the Summer Solstice to an Observer in New York State

Contour Map of an Impact Crater

Topographic Contour Map of the Barringer Impact Crater near Winslow, Arizona

Foucault Pendulum

Sketch of Device Which Demonstrates Earth's Rotation

All Pegs in the Ring Rotate with the Earth and are Struck Down

Graded Bedding

Vertical Arrangement of Sedimentary Particles Based on Size When Mixed-Size Sediments are Deposited Simultaneously in Water

Down

Cold Front

Hot Spot

Cartoon of a Hotspot Located Beneath Oceanic Lithosphere

Latitude and Longitude

Shown at 15 degree Intervals

Sling Psychrometer

Device Used to Determine Dewpoint Temperature and Relative Humidity

Typical Soil Profile

Stream Bend

Deposition

Erosion

Point Bar

Kepler's First Law

Ellipse

Transform Plate Margin

Boundary Between the Pacific and North American Plates at the San Andreas Fault

Pacific

Plate

North American

Plate

San Andreas Fault

Glacially Scoured and Eroded Rock Surface

Greenland

Overturned, Reverse-Faulted, and Contact-Metamorphosed Strata

Normal

Strata

Overturned

Strata

Reverse

Fault

Contact Metamorphism

Sun-Earth-Moon Orbital System

Dike

Mafic Dike Intruding Light-Colored Country Rock

Topographic Contour Lab Model Images (Scrolling)

Surface Analysis Weather Map

(Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 2:00 pm)

Cold Front

Warm Front

Stationary Front

Occluded Front

RAIN

OVERCAST

RAIN

CLEAR

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EYE

HEAVY RAIN

RAIN BANDS

RAIN BANDSSS

Florida

Cuba

Haiti

Mexico

Gulf

Mexico

Caribbean Sea

Atlantic Ocean

Pacific Ocean

Surface Analysis Weather Map

(Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 2:00 am)

Lake Effect Snow and Circulation Around a Low Pressure System

Atlantic Ocean

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Lake

Erie

Lake

Ontario

Isobar

WNW Winds

SNOW

RAIN

Cold Front

Trough

Intellicast.com

Base Maps

Northern Atlantic Hurricane Location Plotting Map [Wunderground]

Eastern Pacific Hurricane Location Plotting Map [Wunderground]

Academic Calendar

Double Rainbow

Brooklyn, NY

(Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 4:00 pm)

Reference Tables

The Ekman Spiral

Net Water

Transport

Wind

Depth

Water Displacement Vector

Tremont Syncline

Llewellyn Formation - Pennsylvanian

I-81

Schuylkill County

PENNSYLVANIA

[Photograph Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Geological Survey]

Sunspot

[Photograph Courtesy of NASA]

Hurricane Earl

As Viewed from the International Space Station

[August, 2010]

[Photograph Courtesy of NASA]

Eye

Answer Keys

1889 Topographic Map of Southwestern Brooklyn

Future Location of John Dewey High School

Radar Signature of a Cold Front

Taconic Unconformity

New York State Thruway Interchange 23

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Rondout Formation

Austin Glen Formation

Unconformity

Panther Mountain Impact Structure

Shandaken, NY

[Topographic Map]

Course Topical Outline

Density Lab

2021

Regents Exam

Topographic Maps: Profiling,

Measuring, and Computing Gradient

Exercises

Contouring Topographic Field Data

Mass vs. Volume Graph

Five Bodies of Different Mass and Volume

Each Comprised of a Material with a Density of 2.5 grams per cubic centimeter

[Slope = Density]

Great Pond Mountain

Topographic Map

[Contour Interval: 25 Feet]

Letter of Welcome

Coding and Decoding Ground

Atmospheric Pressure Readings

Construction and Interpretation of

Isotherm Maps I

Construction and Interpretation of

Isotherm Maps II

Construction and Interpretation of

Isobar Maps I

Construction and Interpretation of

Isobar Maps II

Construction and Interpretation of

Weather Station Models

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Stratigraphic Correlation

Student Expectations

Contract Agreement

Problems Concerning Thermal Energy