Earth History

How is the relative age of rock layers determined by scientists?

• Relative age

• Radioactive age

• Extinction

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What group of animals appeared on earth more recently?

• Bugs

• Mammals

• Birds

• Fish

If an index fossil is found in the same layer as another fossil, what does it mean about the other fossil?

• They happend around the same time

• It came before

• It came after

• It never existed

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Fossils form when organisms died and are buried in what?

• Sediment

• Lava

• Magma

• Earth Crust

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What is magma that forces its way onto the surface of the earth and hardens?

• Sedimentary Rocks

• Igneous Rocks

• Metamorphic Rocks

Fossils provide evidence of what?

• Future Life

• Present Life

• Past Life

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What do scientists use radioactive dating for?

• Estimate when rocks formed

• Know when rocks formed

• Estimate when a fossil was developed

• Know when a fossil was developed

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What are the air bubbles in that scientists study to see how Earth’s atmosphere has changed?

• Ice Cores

• Lava Cores

• MAGMA CORES

• Cloud Cores

In what situation would older rock layers lie above younger rock layers?

• Melting

• Overturned by folding

• Moving

• Crushing

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What is the longest division of time on the geologic time scale?

• Eon

• Era

• Peroid

• Day

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