Name:______________________
Directions: Use the Geologic History of New York State (p. 8,9) and Generalized Bedrock Geology of New York State (p. 3) from the Earth Science Reference Tables to answer the following questions.
1.	How old is the earth?_______________________________
2.	Place in increasing size order: era,epoch,period___________________________
3.	When did life on Earth begin?____________________________________
4.	Give a time frame for the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras.___________________________
5.	We live in the _____________era, the ____________period, and the _________epoch
6.	Which is older, Devonian or Silurian?_____________Name the era they are in_____________
7.	During which epoch did the last glacier age end?____________________________
8.	The earliest fish lire from the ________era,________epoch, which occurred ___m.y.a.
9.	What does orogeny mean?           ____________________________________
10.	When did trilobites live?
11. During which period did Earth's first coral reef form?____________ the first forest?^
12. When did the trilobites become extinct?___________ _
13. Give the period and epoch of the first reptiles,
14. Give the period and Epoch of the first birds ^
15. What important geologic event took place in the Jurassic period?_____________________
16. When were sands and shales underlying Long Island and Staten Island deposited?.
17. Which type of fossils have been around the longest and are still around today?___
18. What type of bedrock is found in Syracuse? Elmira? Old Forge? Which is oldest? Youngest?______________________________________
19. Name three types of bedrock found in Staten Island__
20. Are the bedrocks of Jamestown or Watertown older?_
21. What kind of bedrock is found around Mt. Marcy?_
22. What type of bedrock is found in Long Island?___
23. Which is older, bedrock in Rochester or Niagara Falls?_
24. What caused the Appalachian orogeny?________
25. Which mountains are older, Taconian, Appalachian, or Orenville?_
26. What period were each formed in?_________________________
27. Which two continents were southeast of the U.S. in the Triassic period?____
28. When did dinosaurs live?          i_____________ When did they die?_
29. When did insects appear?         !