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Earth & Space Science - Earth's History Test Review

Authored by Destiny Bailey

Science

9th - 12th Grade

NGSS covered

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Earth & Space Science - Earth's History Test Review
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A fossil is ____.

any dead organism

the preserved remains or traces of an organism

a perfect copy of a rock

an unusual type of rock

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

How do most fossils form?

The soft parts of an organism change to stone.

Living things die and their remains are buried by sediments.

Freezing preserves the remains of an organism.

The hard parts of an organism dry out in the air.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A fossil formed when minerals replace all of part of an organism is called a(n)

mold

trace fossil

petrified fossil

cast

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

_____ can provide clues about the activities of ancient organisms.

Trace fossils

Carbon films

Molds and casts

Remains preserved in amber

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The process by which all the different kinds of living things have changed over long periods of time is called ____.

replacement

sedimentation

evolution

deposition

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A type of organism that no longer exists on Earth is said to be ____.

fossilized

extinct

sedimentary

petrified

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The relative age of a rock is ____.

its age based on how much carbon-14 the rock contains

its age compared to the ages of other rocks

the number of years since the rock formed

less than the age of the fossils the rock contains

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

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