Changes in the Earth Science Reference Table from

Changes in the Earth Science Reference Table from the 2001 Edition to the 2010 Edition Jonathan Schweitzer, Earth Science Teacher Belmont Preparatory High School 500 E. Fordham Rd Bronx, NY 10458 January 2010

2010 Edition ESRT • Starting in January of 2010 student were required to use the 2010 Edition of the ESRT. • Earth Science teachers should be aware that there are substantial differences in the specific information and how it is presented in many of the tables, graphs, and charts of the new edition of the ESRT. • Almost 50% of the January 2010 Physical Setting/Earth Science questions on the Regents Examinations were based on the use of the ESRT.

Example of Change • Same the graph, “Relationship of Transported Particle Size to Water Velocity” (2001 and 2010 editions), but different X and Y scaling change the line of the graph. 2001 2010

Jan 2010 : Question 45 • 45 Which stream velocity carried only clay particles to the depositional environment where the shale formed? • (1) 0. 02 cm/s (3) 10 cm/s • (2) 0. 05 cm/s (4) 20 cm/s

Another Example 2001 2010

Jan 2010: Question 83 • 83 Some of the incoming solar radiation is absorbed by the floor. Identify the type of electromagnetic energy reradiated by the floor. [1] • — infrared, microwaves, radio waves

OLD 2001 Version Page 1 New 2010 Version Calories/gram Joules/gram Removed (see below) Table was on page 11

Radioactive Decay Data Table • Disintegration Column • # superscripts now appear before the element symbol 2001 2010 C 14 N 14 14 C 14 N

Eurypterus remipes • Full Scientific name • All Caps to Caps and Lower Case • EURYPTERUS Eurypterus remipes

Properties of Water Table 2001 2010 Energy gained during melting … 80 calories/gram Heat energy gained during melting … 334 J/g Energy released during freezing … 80 calories/gram Heat energy released during freezing … 334 J/g Energy gained during Heat energy gained during vaporization … 540 calories/gram vaporization … 2260 J/g Energy released during condensation … 540 calories/gram Density at 3. 980 C … 1. 00 gram/milliliter Heat energy released during condensation … 2260 J/g Density at 3. 980 C … 1. 0 g/ml

Old Page 2 New Reverse shading for land water -“Interior Lowlands” added -Compass Rose -Map Scale -Straight dashed line for “Landscape region boundary”

Old Page 3 New Cretaceous and Pleistocene (Epoch) “Tertiary” was removed Late Triassic and Early Jurassic – “basalt” was added

Old Page 4 New Entire map is shifted 160 degrees east

Old Page 5 New Ring of fire is centered.

Old Diameter Range was. 00001 to 100 cm Page 6 Velocity Range was 0 -800 cm/s Diameter Range is. 0001 To 100 cm New Velocity Range is. 01 To 1000 cm/s

Page 6 cont’d • Same

Page 7 • Values written in reverse • 0. 2 to 0. 00 6 cm is now 0. 0006 to 0. 2 cm • 0. 006 to 0. 0004 cm is now 0. 0004 to 0. 006 cm

Old Page 7 cont New

Old Page 8 The page previously ended near the middle of Time Distribution of Fossils New The page now ends at NY Rock Record

Old Column Removed Page 9 Names Removed New

Old Page 10 New Density values adjusted

Old Page 11 New

Old Page 12 New Shaded rows between white rows

Old Page 13 New

Old Page 14 New Scale adjusted Tropopause was solid; now dotted Wavelengths removed (very notable!)

Old Page 15 New Hertzsprung elongated and shifted down-left; SS data chart flattened

Old Page 16 New Illustrations removed Many updates to Uses and Characteristics Mineral name and Composition columns Swapped.