Quiz about LS4-1 & LS4-2 The Fossil Record

Question 1

Where can the oldest layer be found?

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The bottom layer

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The top layer

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The middle layer

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They are all the same age

Question 2

Which layer formed first?

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Rock Layer Z

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Rock Layer W

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Rock Layer X

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Rock Layer Y

Question 3

According to the law of superposition, which layer is the youngest?

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A

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B

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C

Question 4

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

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Near the bottom of the rock layers

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At the top of the rock layers

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In the middle of the rock layers

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Somewhat near the surface

Question 5

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?

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The rock layer with the pottery is more recent than the rock layer with the skull.

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The rock layer with the skull is more recent than the rock layer with the pottery.

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The rock layer with the skull is approximately the same age as the rock layer with the pottery.

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The rock layer with the skull has an absolute date of 17,000 years.

Question 6

In which kind of rock do we usually find a fossil?

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sedimentary rock

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metamorphic rock

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igneous rock

Question 7

If scientists found this fossil, what could they infer?

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that water once covered the area where this fossil was found

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what fish are like today

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that this fish lacked oxygen

Question 8

Which layer is oldest?

Accepted Answer

A

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G

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Z

Question 9

_{Which rock layer contains the newest fossils?}

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F

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E

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C

Question 10

Fossils of fish are found under land where cows now live. What does this tell you?

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this land was once under the ocean

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the fish were dropped their by flying birds

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fish used to live on land

Question 11

A fossil is ____.

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the remains of things that lived a long, long time ago

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a dead rotten animal

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a plant that dried up

Question 12

While examining a layer of rock, a scientist found a fossil of a trilobite like the one shown below. The scientist knows that trilobites only lived during the Paleozoic era. The scientist finds fossilized remains of other species in the same rock layer as the trilobite. What can the scientist conclude about these other fossils?

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The organisms that formed them likely also lived during the Paleozoic era.

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The organisms that formed them must have evolved from trilobites.

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The organisms that formed them likely went extinct before the Paleozoic era.

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The organisms that formed them are still living in modern times.

Question 13

Diagram 1 shows the fossilized remains of the lower portion of a camel's leg. Each subsequent diagram shows the same portion of a camel's leg, but the diagrams are from progressively later time periods. Diagram 4 shows the most recent fossil. What do these diagrams indicate?

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that fossils can show how a species changes over time.

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that modern camels have more toes than earlier species of camels.

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that all living organisms have increased in size over time.

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that fossils show how species stay the same over time.

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