Unit 7 White sands test review

Which mineral resource is primarily found in the western region of New York State near Lake Erie?

• Salt deposits

• Garnet

• Wollastonite

• Rare Earth Elements

What major energy resource is indicated by small and large fields in the southwestern part of New York State?

• Coal

• Natural gas

• Solar energy

• Nuclear power

Near which city can significant clay (shale) deposits be found?

• Syracuse

• Jamestown

• New York City

• Cooperstown

Identify the two cities underlain by large gas fields: Buffalo and Jamestown.

• Buffalo and Jamestown

• New York and Albany

• Rochester and Syracuse

• Niagara Falls and Utica

5. What do the circled numbers on the map on ESSRT page 9 represent?

• Locations of interest

• Population density

• Elevation levels

• Weather patterns

Write the number used to represent the following cities: Glens Falls: 27, Ronkonkoma: 29, Elmira: 8, Machias: ___

• 1

• 5

• 12

• 4

Based on the 'Mineral Identification Flowchart,' which property can be used to distinguish quartz from feldspar?

• Hardness

• Luster

• Cleavage

• Streak

The tendency of a mineral to split unevenly when it breaks indicates the mineral property called

• cleavage

• fracture

• composition

• hardness

The famous green-sand beach on the Big Island of Hawaii gets its color from green colored grains of which mineral?

• pyrite

• gypsum

• olivine

• hematite

pyrite is a metallic mineral

• true

• false