Quiz about Earth's History Practice

Question 1

A dinosaur footprint

Accepted Answer

Trace

Answer

True

Answer

Cast

Answer

Carbon Film

Question 2

Hollow space left when a plant or animal decays

Accepted Answer

Mold

Answer

True

Answer

Cast

Answer

Trace

Question 3

Fossilized dinosaur tooth marks

Accepted Answer

Trace

Answer

True

Answer

Cast

Answer

Carbon Film

Question 4

Wooly mammoth skull

Accepted Answer

Cast

Answer

Carbon Film

Answer

Mold

Answer

Trace

Question 5

Impression of an ancient shell

Accepted Answer

Mold

Answer

Carbon Film

Answer

Cast

Answer

Trace

Question 6

Trilobite

Accepted Answer

Cast

Answer

Trace

Answer

Mold

Answer

True

Question 7

Bug in amber

Accepted Answer

True Fossil

Answer

Cast Fossil

Answer

Mold Fossil

Answer

Carbon Film Fossil

Question 8

Type of fossil?

Accepted Answer

Carbon Film

Answer

True

Answer

Cast

Answer

Mold

Question 9

Type of fossil?

Accepted Answer

Carbon Film

Answer

True

Answer

Mold

Answer

Cast

Question 10

Which is the oldest?

Accepted Answer

C

Answer

A

Answer

B

Answer

D

Question 11

Which is the youngest?

Accepted Answer

E

Answer

B

Answer

C

Answer

D

Question 12

Which of the following is the layers in order from OLDEST to YOUNGEST?

Accepted Answer

C, B, A, D, E,

Answer

A, B, C, D, E

Answer

D, B, C, E, A

Answer

E, A, B, C, D

Question 13

"E" is an example of what event?

Accepted Answer

Fault

Answer

Uplift

Answer

Fracture

Answer

Compaction

Question 14

Which rock layer in the diagram seems to be the oldest?

Accepted Answer

A

Answer

F

Answer

E

Answer

B

Question 15

The ___ parts of organisms are more likely to become fossils.

Accepted Answer

hard

Answer

soft

Answer

outer

Answer

inner

Question 16

Scientists who study fossils are called

Accepted Answer

Paleontologists

Answer

Geologists

Answer

Fossil Scientists

Answer

Meteorologists

Question 17

An organism that no longer exists on Earth is called

Accepted Answer

Extinct

Answer

Decayed

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Evolved

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Preserved

Question 18

Which rock layer contains the newest fossils?

Accepted Answer

F

Answer

E

Answer

B

Answer

C

Question 19

What is hardened tree sap called?

Accepted Answer

amber

Answer

coprolites

Answer

index fossils

Answer

gastroliths

Question 20

The age of something compared to the age of other things. (Not an exact age)

Accepted Answer

relative age

Answer

absolute age

Answer

superposition

Answer

index

Question 21

How old is the Earth?

Accepted Answer

4.6 billion years old

Answer

2024 years old

Answer

3.6 billion years old

Answer

4.6 million years old

Question 22

this type of fossil is created when an organism's tissue is replaced by minerals

Accepted Answer

petrified

Answer

cast

Answer

carbon film

Answer

amber

Question 23

The soft parts of organisms are most likely to become fossils.

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 24

Stratigraphy is the ____.

Accepted Answer

study of rock layers

Answer

idea of walking in a straight line

Answer

study of moving plates

Answer

best way to make graphs

Question 25

The Principle of Cross-Cutting Relationships states that an igneous intrusion is

Accepted Answer

always younger than the layers it cuts across

Answer

always older than the layers it cuts across

Answer

the same age as the rock it melted

Answer

none of the answers are correct

Question 26

What are the puzzle pieces of the Earth's surface called?

Accepted Answer

Tectonic plates

Answer

Puzzles

Answer

Earthquakes

Question 27

What is the outermost layer of the Earth called?

Accepted Answer

Crust

Answer

Core

Answer

Mantle

Question 28

The area around the Pacific Ocean where lots of earthquakes and volcanoes happen is called the ____________.

Accepted Answer

Ring of Fire

Answer

Ring of Earth

Answer

Ring of Stone

Answer

Ring of Diamond

Question 29

What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?

Accepted Answer

Divergent

Answer

Convergent

Answer

Transform

Question 30

What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?

Accepted Answer

Transform

Answer

Divergent

Answer

Convergent

Question 31

What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?

Accepted Answer

Convergent

Answer

Divergent

Answer

Transform

Question 32

Convergent Plate Movement can create

Accepted Answer

Mountains

Answer

Rifts

Answer

Ocean Ridges

Answer

Radiation

Question 33

Divergent Plate movement can create

Accepted Answer

Rifts and ocean ridges

Answer

Convection Currents

Answer

Conduction

Answer

Mountains

Question 34

Where are most divergent boundaries located?

Accepted Answer

Along the middle of most ocean floors

Answer

Along the margins of most continents

Answer

Across the middle of many continents

Answer

All the above options are correct

Question 35

The Himalayan mountains have some of the highest peaks like Mt. Everest, on which type of convergent boundary are they located?

Accepted Answer

Continental/Continental

Answer

Oceanic/Continental

Answer

Oceanic/Oceanic

Answer

None of the above

Question 36

How is it possible for new crust to be formed without increasing the surface area of the Earth?

Accepted Answer

Crust is destroyed at the same time it is created

Answer

New crust is underwater where it sinks

Answer

New crust breaks more easily than old crust

Question 37

The area where two tectonic plates meet.

Accepted Answer

plate boundary

Answer

mantle

Answer

focus

Answer

convection

Question 38

A subduction zone is formed...

Accepted Answer

when one tectonic plate sinks below another

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at every type of convergent plate boundary

Answer

at every type of divergent plate boundary

Answer

at transform boundaries

Question 39

Who is the person credited with developing the theory of continental drift?

Accepted Answer

Alfred Wegener

Answer

Harry Hess

Answer

Galileo

Answer

Newton

Question 40

Which oceanic plate in the above picture must be more dense? LEFT or RIGHT

Accepted Answer

The plate on the right (without the volcano)

Answer

The plate on the left (the plate with the volcano on it)

Question 41

What is weathering?

Accepted Answer

The breaking of sediment

Answer

The movement of sediment

Answer

The dropping of sediment

Question 42

What is erosion?

Accepted Answer

The movement of sediment

Answer

The breaking of sediment

Answer

The dropping of sediment

Question 43

What is deposition?

Accepted Answer

The dropping of sediment

Answer

The movement of sediment

Answer

The breaking of sediment

Question 44

Water carrying sediment down a hill is an example of...

Accepted Answer

erosion

Answer

weathering

Answer

deposition

Question 45

Water freezing inside a rock and breaking it into smaller sediment is an example of...

Accepted Answer

weathering

Answer

erosion

Answer

deposition

Question 46

After pieces of dirt in a lake slowly sink down through the water, they drop on the bottom of the lake

Accepted Answer

deposition

Answer

weathering

Answer

erosion

Question 47

Who created new maps of the ocean floor and discovered underwater mountains and rift valleys?

Accepted Answer

Marie Tharp

Answer

Alfred Wegener

Answer

Charles Darwin

Answer

Marie Curie

Question 48

Earth's continents have always been in the exact same spots they are today

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 49

Humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 50

Which of these is NOT a reason that Wegener believed all the continents used to be combined into supercontinent Pangea?

Accepted Answer

The continents can float on water

Answer

The continents appear to fit together like puzzle pieces

Answer

Rock layers on the edges of different continents matched up

Answer

Locations of fossils of the same organisms were found on different continents

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