History of Life

How old is the earth?

• 2.5 million years

• 4.6 billion years

• 1.5 billion years

• 4.6 million years

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

Fossil remains of a trilobite are most likely to be found in which type of rock?

• igneous
• volcanic
• sedimentary
• metamorphic

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

method of determining the age based on measuring radioactive elements

• radioactive dating

• relative dating

• teenage dating

• no dating

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

The Geologic Time Scale is a record of what?

• old geologists
• sweet geology music
• the known history of rocks and fossils
• a list of every living thing ever

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Built a simulation of early Earth's gases and electricity

• oparin

• Darwin

• Mendel

• miller/urey

A preserved remnant or impression of an organism that lived in the past.

• Hox Genes

• Common Ancestor

• Fossil

• Stasis

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

The idea that Earth's early oceans had organic molecules that became the first life is called.

• primordial soup
• bubble hypothesis
• Miller-Urey Experiment
• radioactive dating theory

The first eukaryotic cells are more likely to have evolved from ______________ than eubactria (true bacteria).

• exocytosis
• endosymbiosis
• organelles
• Archaebacteria

Scientist(s) who believed in uniformitarianism and that the Earth is very old

• Hutton & Lyell
• Lamarck
• Malthus 
• Darwin

The idea that life can be produced from nonliving material.

• Spontaneous generation

• Biogenesis