Investigations 3-4 Earth History Test

In what type of rocks would you expect to find fossils?

• Metamorphic Rock

• Sedimentary Rock

• Igneous Rocks

• All of the above

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

If you find a layer of shale in a swampy area, what type of environment would you expect to find?

• Swamp

• Coral Reef

• Sandy Beach

• A river

You perform an acid test on a white, sandy rock and it does not fizz. What processes could have caused this rock to form?

• Deposition, Cementation, Erosion

• Chemical Reaction, Melting

• All of the above

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Which statement describes the principle of uniformitarianism?

• Deposition occurs faster today than it did in ancient environments

• Rocks form by the same processes today as in the past

• Weathering and erosion can be fast or slow, depending on the type of rock

• Earth's geological features were formed by a few catastrophic events

Which of the following statements does NOT explain the gaps in the fossil record?

• Many organisms do not have structures that can be fossilized

• There were periods of time when no organisms died

• Some environments do not provide conditions favorable to fossil formation

• There are lots of fossils that we haven't found yet

• Some geological events destroyed fossils that were in the rock layers

Geological time is described in eras and periods. Those segments of time are based on ________.

• whoever discovered them

• significant evolutionary events in Earth's history

• the thickness of certain rock layers

• the number of layers of rock that can be counted as 10 meters of a rock column

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

To a geologist, the most important use of index fossils is ________.

• to show what kind of life existed long ago

• to show that the sediments were deposited horizontally

• to determine the age of the rock

• to tell the story of the ancient environment

True or False: Layers in a basin ALWAYS form horizontally.

• True

• False

True or False: An ENTIRE basin can become tilted.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

True or False: Layers gradually tilt until they become horizontal.

• True

• False