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Directions: First, click on Internet Explorer. From there type in Google.com. When on Google, type in: Raritan River Lesson Plan. We will use the first website that comes up: Raritan River Educational Page. Click on that website. Or you may use the following Website:

http://192.107.108.56/portfolios/y/yusko_l/RaritanRiver/

to help you with this Web Quest. Click on the heading Geology to help you answer the following questions.

• New Jersey’s diversity of geologic materials range in age from the _______________________________to the present. The _____________________________ occurred over one billion years ago.
  
  
• Some sedimentary rocks you will find in New Jersey include:

  a._________________________________________

  b._________________________________________

  c._________________________________________

  d._________________________________________
  
  
  

• Click on the Geologic Map of New Jersey. Name the 3 time 
  periods that formed the sedimentary rocks of New Jersey:

  1.__________________________________________

  2.__________________________________________

  3.__________________________________________
  
  

• Name the 2 time periods that formed igneous and metamorphic rocks:

1._________________________________________

2._________________________________________

• Underlying bedrock did not directly form New Jersey soils. Forces such as _________________________ or _______________________ transported materials from one location to another.
  
  
• The _________________________ part of our state was covered with ___________________ on at least 2 and perhaps as many as four occasions.
  
  
• The Kansan was the oldest ______________________ in New Jersey, which was probably _______________ years ago.