Rock and Fossil Record Review

The diagram shows a cross section of rocks beside a highway. Which rock type is the oldest?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Which Rock layer or intrusion is the youngest?

• A
• B
• C
• D

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

What is the study of past life as rocks or fossils?

• Paleontology
• Archeology
• Fossilology

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

What is the idea that geologic processes are occurring now are the same as those that occurred in the past?

• Unconformities
• Uniformitarianism
• Epicism

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What is it called when a fossilized mark is found in soft sediment that was formed by the movement of an animal?

• Index fossil
• Trace fossil
• Sludge
• Geologic Time

What type of dating indicates an approximate age of a fossil in relationship to other layers of rock in an area?

• Relative dating
• Absolute Dating

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

What states that younger rocks are found above older rocks?

• Theory of Plate Tectonics
• Law of Superposition

Which activity is an example of the superposition principle?

• hanging clothes in a closet

• tossing clothes into a laundry hamper

• choosing a book from the library

• all of these

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

Insects can be preserved in ____, or hardened tree sap.

• amber

• tar

• ice

• coprolite

Scientists assign relative ages of rocks by using

• the ratio of isotopes
• the principle of superposition
• potassium-Argon dating
• absolute dating