Earth's Geologic Time Review

Which are best examples of original remains?

• trace fossils, amber, molds, and casts

• amber, tar, ice

• ice, petrified wood, trace fossils

• molds and casts, carbon films, trace fossils

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Which layer are fossils found?

• Mineral layer

• Igneous rock

• Metamorphic rock

• sedimentary rock

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Relative age is used in dating which type of rock?

• Mineral rock

• Igneous rock

• Metamorphic rock

• sedimentary rock

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Fossils of organisms that were common, that lived in many areas, and existed only during specific time spans

• absolute age

• geologic time scale

• index fossil

• relative age

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Earth is dated in _________ events.

• absolute age

• catastrophic events

• geology

• evenly spaced time (decades, centuries)

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Select all of the following used to mark time in the geologic time scale:

• eon

• periods

• era

• years

• epochs

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Most fossils found today are:

• only a couple hundred years old.

• insects.

• are made of stone.

• are made of stone.

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When looking at layers of the earth, which answer is the best.

• The lowest layer in sedimentary rock is the oldest.

• Igneous rocks preserve fossils and easily date them.

• Metamorphic rocks date fossils.

• Minerals help us date rocks.

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Earth is 4.6 __________ years old.

• million

• billion

• thousand

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If a geologist found a few fossilized seashells in Kansas in a rock layer what could they assume the area was once covered by?

• a mountain

• a valley

• a dessert

• a sea

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