
Warm-up - Geologic Time Scale & Law of Superposition - 4/2/2019

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8th Grade
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Amoy Scott
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The earliest part of Earth's history is called the
Cenozoic
Canbrian
Holocene
Precambrian
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which division of the geologic time scale is the longest?
eon
period
era
epoch
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of these groups of animals appeared on Earth most recently?
reptiles
amphibians
mammals
fish
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Determining the order of events and the relative age of rocks by examining the position of rocks in a sequence is called __________.
absolute dating
relative dating
radiometric dating
relative carbon dating
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Geologic time is divided best into units based on ________.
geologic changes
fossils and rocks
types of life-forms living during certain periods
types of trilobites
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Trilobites can be used to study the passage of geologic time because __________.
they burrow into sediments
they lived in the oceans
they lived throughout the Paleozoic Era
their physical features changed through time
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Trilobite that lived for a short period of time and was abundant is an example of a(n) _________.
index fossil
trace fossil
permineralized remain
original remain
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