Earth's History and Fossil Record

Where can the oldest layer be found?

• The top layer
• The middle layer
• They are all the same age
• The bottom layer

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

How are fossils created?

• Traces of organisms get turned into stone.
• Dead organisms are quickly buried for millions of years.
• Animals get trapped.
• All of the above

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Which layer formed first?

• Rock Layer W
• Rock Layer X
• Rock Layer Y
• Rock Layer Z

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Invertebrates, Corral Reefs, and Amphibians all came about in this Era, in which the first plants appeared.

• Precambrian Time

• Paleozoic

• Mesozoic

• Cenozoic

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Process that uses the properties of atoms in rocks and other objects to determine their ages 

• relative dating
• radioactive decay 
• absolute dating

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1

Which of the following is a requirement of index fossils?

• Lived over a vast time period but found only in one location

• lived only for a short time but was found all over the world

• Not a prevalent species at any time

• Still alive today

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

If scientists found this fossil, what could they infer?

• what fish are like today
• that this fish lacked oxygen
• what kind of animal ate this fish
• that water once covered the area

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Correctly sequence the layers of rocks oldest to youngest

• A,D, C, B, E

• E, B,C D, A

• B,E,C, D, A

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Method by which a geologist can calculate the absolute age of the rock by knowing the half-life of an isotope 

• radiometric dating
• relative dating
• absolute dating

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

Fossils can provide evidence of how life has changed over time, how Earth's surface has changed, and clues about what past environments were like.

• True
• False

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2