Unit 1-2 SC PASS Review Quiz

The Law of Superposition helps scientists to determine what?

• The absolute age of rock layers
• The age of fossils
• The relative age of rock layers
• the super powers of rocks

According to the law of superposition, the oldest fossils are found 

• At the top of the rock layers
• Near the bottom of the rock layers
• In the middle of the rock layers
• Somewhat near the surface

An archaeologist made the following diagram of a dig site. What can be said about the pottery as compared to the skull found in the site?

• The rock layer with the pottery is more recent than the rock layer with the skull.
• The rock layer with the skull is more recent than the rock layer with the pottery.
• The rock layer with the skull is approximately the same age as the rock layer with the pottery.
• The rock layer with the skull has an absolute date of 17,000 years.

The age of a rock compared to the ages of other rocks is the rock's

• absolute age
• geologic age
• sedimentary age
• relative age

What is an igneous rock?

• Rock that forms when melted, or molten rock from deep below Earth's surface cools and hardens.
• A solid material made up of one or more minerals.
• Rock that forms when existing rocks are changed by heat, pressure, or chemicals beneath the Earth's surface.

What is metamorphic rock?

• Rock that forms when melted, or molten rock from deep below Earth's surface cools and hardens.
• A solid material made up of one or more minerals.
• Rock that forms when existing rocks are changed by heat, pressure, or chemicals beneath the Earth's surface.

What are 3 properties that are used to identify minerals?

• luster, color and sound
• smell, color and hardness
• luster, color and hardness
• luster, smell and hardness

Metamorphism is caused by intense _____ & _____.

• foliation & nonfoliation
• texture & composition
• cementation & compaction
• temperature & pressure 

What are the layers of the Earth?

• Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core
• Crust, Oceanic, and Continental
• Metamorphic, Sedimentary, and Igneous
• Mantle, Currents, Core, and Crust

Pangea is ___________

• a gigantic super-continent
• the seven continents we have today
• a place in Egypt
• a fossil