Geologic History

What can we learn from fossils?

• How earthquakes formed.
• How erosion changed mountains
• How Earth's magnetic field was formed
• How Earth's environment has changed

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What might you conclude if a fish fossil was found on top of a mountain in Kentucky?

• An Earthquake happened there.
• A Volcano erupted there.
• A forest covered that area for a while.
• A Sea once covered the area.

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What occurred during the Paleozoic Era?

• a great number of organisms evolved
• mammals evolved         
• reptiles spread widely 

A rock formed with 500 atoms of a radioactive parent element, but only contains 125 radioactive parent atoms today.  If the half-life is 1000 years, how old is the rock?

• 2000 years
• 500 years
• 250 years
• 125 years

Relative dating of rock layers tells us that the deeper we dig, _______.

• the younger the rocks get
• the smellier the rocks get
• the harder the rocks get
• the older the rocks get

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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

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How old do Paleontologists believe the Earth is?

• 2015 years old
• 3.6 billion years old
• 4.6 billion years old
• 4.6 million years old

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What type of rock do fossils form in?

• Igneous
• Sedimentary
• Metamorphic
• Classic

Most events on the geologic timeline happened:

• a long time ago, near the beginning
• more recently, near the modern time
• evenly spread out
• right in the center of the timeline

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_{Which rock layer in the diagram seems to be the oldest?}

• F
• E
• B
• A

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