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The
Erie
Ontario
Lowlands
tour
is
part
of
the
New
York
Landscape
Regions
Collection
of
Google
Earth
tours.
This
tour
includes
glacial
history,
features,
and
views
of
Niagara
Falls,
the
Niagara
Escarpment,
current
and
former
spillways,
and
the
locks
at
Lockport,
New
York.
Students
can
also
learn
about
the
geology
and
glacial
history
of
Canandaigua
Lake,
one
of
New
York's
Finger
Lakes,
which
discharges
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In this activity, students play the roles of "time travel agents" creating an advertisement for a geologic time period which has been assigned to them. They will use the Earth Science Reference Tables (available on the internet) to learn some basic facts about their assigned period. A rubric for assessing student understanding is provided.
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The
Hudson
Highlands
tour
is
part
of
the
New
York
Landscape
Regions
Collection
of
Google
Earth
Tours,
created
by
a
group
of
New
York
State
science
educators.
This
tour
introduces
Hudson
Highlands
geology,
including
glaciology
at
Bear
Mountain,
views
of
the
Highlands,
and
the
Ramapo
Fault
to
the
south.
It
also
offers
other
information
about
the
area,
including
some
animals,
New
York
City's
water
supply,
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In
this
activity,
students
organize
a
set
of
fossils
chronologically
and
learn
to
correlate,
based
on
fossil
evidence,
the
stratigraphy
of
one
location
with
that
of
an
adjacent
location.
Earth
Science
Reference
Tables
are
used
to
identify
the
epoch
of
occurrence
and
the
age
of
each
of
the
fossil
specimens.
Students
will
become
familiar
with
the
concept
of
index
fossils
and
understand
what
makes
a
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The
Hudson
Mohawk
Lowlands
tour
is
part
of
the
New
York
Landscape
Regions
Collection
of
Google
Earth
tours,
created
by
a
group
of
New
York
State
science
educators.
This
tour
introduces
students
to
limestone
quarrying
along
the
western
shore
of
the
Hudson
River
south
of
Catskill,
New
York.
They
can
follow
the
courses
of
the
Mohawk
River
and
Erie
Canal
eastward
to
the
Cohoes
Falls
and
the
confluence
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The
Taconic
Mountains
tour
highlights
the
geology
and
natural
environment
of
several
landscape
regions,
including
the
structure
of
the
Highlands
Province
basement
rocks,
which
were
affected
by
the
Taconic
Orogeny.
Students
can
view
biotite-rich
schists
and
the
tight
isoclinic
folds
of
the
Walloomsac
Formation,
as
well
as
the
Taconic
angular
unconformity
at
the
south
end
of
Becraft
Mountain.
Bedding
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In
this
activity,
students
play
the
roles
of
consultants
in
developing
a
geologic
'tour'
south
od
Rochester,
New
York,
near
the
Pennsylvania
border.
They
will
gather
information
on
the
local
rock
types
and
underlying
geology,
examine
an
assemblage
of
fossils
from
the
bedrock
and
from
glacial
erratics,
and
prepare
a
report
detailing
the
geology
with
cross-sections
and
a
timeline
based
on
the
fossil
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The
Allegheny
Plateau
tours
are
part
of
the
New
York
Landscape
Regions
Collection
of
Google
Earth
Tours,
created
by
a
group
of
New
York
State
science
educators.
These
tours
showcase
examples
of
Allegheny
geology,
including
the
geomorphology
of
glacial
features
near
Tully,
New
York,
southern
Cayuga
Lake,
the
geology
and
geomorphology
of
Letchworth
State
Park
and
its
waterfalls,
as
well
as
waterfalls
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This reference contains formulas, physical constants, maps, diagrams, and other information related to Earth science, space science, physics, and chemistry which are used for the New York State Regents exams. The tables are in a downloadable, printable format, with file size limited to no more than 10 megabytes. The Earth science tables are available in several languages.
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