Fossil Evidence of Evolution

What can be learned about a fossil using relative-age dating?

• its age in years
• its age compared to other fossils
• its age based on radioactive decay

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What is a major cause of extinctions?

• biological evolution
• environmental change
• carbonization
• mineralization

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

The impression of an organism in a rock

• cast
• original material fossil
• trace fossil
• mold

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

The fossil copy of an organism in a rock

• cast
• original material fossil
• trace fossil
• mold

The preserved evidence of the activity of an organism

• cast
• original material fossil
• trace fossil
• mold

All the fossils ever discovered on Earth make up

• geologic time scale
• fossil record
• biological evolution

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

A chart that divides Earth's history into units

• geologic time scale
• fossil record
• biological evolution
• ordovician period

The change over time in populations of related organisms

• geologic time scale
• biological evolution
• environmental change
• prehistoric time scale

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

When the last individual of a species dies.

• biological evolution
• geologic tradegdy
• extinction
• cambrian period

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Determining the approximate order in which rock layers were deposited is an important part of ______________.

• relative age dating
• dinosaur period
• absolute age dating
• carbon dating

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4