Module 10 Practice Quiz

Which of the following orders the rock layers accurately from oldest to youngest?

• A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H
• B, F, G, C, D, H, A, E
• B, G, C, D, E, H, A, F
• F, A, H, E, D, C, G, B

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Which of the following orders the rock layers accurately from oldest to youngest?

• F, E, D, C, B, A
• A, B, C, D, E, F
• D, A, B, C, E, F
• F, E, A, B, C, D

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Which of the following does the law of superposition tell scientists?

• Absolute age
• Relative age
• Exact age
• All of the answer choices

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Ms. Felder decides to climb a mountain for fun.  When she gets to the very top she looks down and sees a group of shells and notices the fossil of what looks like a fish.  How does she explain this?

• She takes the fossils to a fellow scientist for absolute dating
• She knows that some marine fossils are found on top of mountains because of plate that have converged 
• She knows that some marine fossils are found on top of mountains because of plate boundaries that are divergent
• She uses relative dating to try to determine how old the fossils are. 

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Some ELEMENTS can decay over time.

• True
• False

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

Geologists use radioactive dating to determine THE ABSOLUTE AGE OF ROCKS.

• True
• False

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

A break in the geologic record that is made when rock layers are eroded over a long period of time

• Law of Superposition
• Law of Crosscutting
• Relative Dating
• Unconformity

The length of time required for half of the radioactive atoms in a sample to decay is its...

• era
• age
• half-life
• eon

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

Radiometric dating is possible because the rates of decay of radioactive isotopes _____.

• change over time
• change from place to place
• are constant
• vary widely

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

If the half-life of a radioactive group of atoms is 100 years, then how old is the rock if there have been two half-lives?

• 25 years
• 200 years
• 400 years
• 800 years

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CCSS.HSF.LE.A.4