
Geologic Time Scale
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8th Grade
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Crystal Norton
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Age of bacteria
relative age
Permian extinction
precambrian era
Paleozoic era
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS1-4
NGSS.MS-LS4-1
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
method used to determine the age of rocks by comparing rocks with younger and older rock layers
extinction
fossil record
relative age
geologic time scale
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS1-4
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Each rock layer is newer than the one below it
law of superposition
geologic time scale
Permian extinction
Paleozoic era
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS1-4
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
a fossil that is used to establish the age of a rock layer because the fossil is distinct, abundant, and widespread and the species that formed that fossil existed for only a short span of geologic time
index fossil
fossil record
fossil
relative age
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS1-4
NGSS.MS-LS4-1
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A particular period in geologic history (for example Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic)
Cenozoic Era
Period
Epoch
Era
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS1-4
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
age of mammals that lasted from 65 million years ago to the present; the era of modern life
Cenozoic Era
Mesozoic Era
epoch
period
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS1-4
NGSS.MS-LS4-1
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The Death of every member of a species
extinction
Paleozoic era
relative age
Permian extinction
Tags
NGSS.MS-LS4-1
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