8th Grade TEST 2.1 AJMS

_______ are the preserved remains or traces of living things.

• bones
• fossils
• artifacts
• organic matter

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Fossils can provide evidence of how life has changed over time, how Earth's surface has changed, and clues about what past environments were like.

• True
• False

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Most fossils form from animals or plants that once lived in or near _____________

• deserts
• ice tundras
• water
• forrests

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Which parts of an organism are more likely to fossilize?

• the soft parts - skin, muscle
• the hard parts - bones, shells, stems
• all parts can become fossilized easily because the organism becomes buried by sediments

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Which period are we currently in?

• Quaternary
• Holocene
• Jurassic
• Tertiary

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To be considered an index fossil, it had to have lived for a relatively short period of time.

• True
• False

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The Law of Superposition helps scientists to determine what?

• The absolute age of rock layers
• The age of fossils
• The relative age of rock layers
• the super powers of rocks

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What is the law that says that intrusions are younger than the surrounding rocks?

• uniformitarianism

• superposition

• cross-cutting

• all of the answers

• horizontality

What is a fossil?

• dominant form of life

• evidence of prehistoric life

• life found on other planets

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Resources that we find in nature and are used without much modification are called:

• Human resources

• Natural resources

• Renewable resources

• Human made resources