GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE

The “calendar” for events in Earth history.

• relative dating

• absolute dating

• geologic time scale

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Age of Earth

• 7.6 billion years

• 4.6 billion years

• 6.6 billion years

• 6.5 billion years

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

It means that how things work today is the same as they work before.

• laws of motion

• laws of nature

• laws of relative rock dating

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Which is the correct order of geologic time? largest - smallest

• eras, epochs, eons, periods

• eons, eras, periods, epochs

• epochs, eons, periods, eras

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The age of marine life.

• paleozoic

• mesozoic

• cenozoic

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

The Age of Mammals

• Cenozoic

• Mesozoic

• Paleozoic

The Triassic Period, the Jurassic Period, and the Cretaceous Period occurred in what era?

• Cenozoic
• Mesozoic

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Eras are subdivided into units of geologic time called periods.

• True
• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

___________ a record of the geologic events and the evolution of life forms as shown in the fossil record. 

• Eras
• Geologic Time Scale

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

In which time period are we currently living?

• Precambrian Time

• Paleozoic Era

• Mesozoic Era

• Cenozoic Era

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4