6th Grade Unit 2 Test Review

A team of geologists compared the rock layers found in Florida to hose found in northwest Africa. They placed all of the rock layers from the two regions in order from youngest to oldest. What did the team make?

• a fossil record

• a geologic record

• a geologic column

• a topographic map

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In the 1830s, an English scientist proposed the idea of uniformitarianism to describe the process of geologic change on Earth. Which of the following words is most closely associated with uniformitarianism?

• rare

• sudden

• gradual

• catastrophic

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The existence of humans on Earth represents a very short amount of time on the geologic time scale. In which epoch do we currently live?

• Eocene

• Pliocene

• Holocene

• Pleistocene

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Sometimes a fossil is formed as a result of the movement of an organism in soft sediment. What type of fossil is this called?

• bone fossil

• trace fossil

• frozen fossil

• petrified fossil

Early in the history of geology, scientists debated two different views of how geologic processes work. These two ideas became known as uniformitarianism and catastrophism. Which of the following correctly describes the early view of catastrophism?

• Changes can be sudden or gradual.

• Can quickly change Earth's structure

• Changes only occur in sudden, devastating events.

• Only occurs because of slow, gradual processes.

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The trace or remains of an organism that lived long ago

• trace fossil

• fossil

• ice core

• tracks

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Describes the weather conditions in the area over a long period of time

• climate

• temperature

• ice core

• weather

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A long cylinder of ice from icecaps

• climate

• ice

• ice core

• mountain

Determining whether an object or event is older or younger that other objects or events

• absolute dating

• relative dating

• superposition

• unconformity

The principle that states that younger rocks lie above older rocks if the layers have not been disturbed

• relative dating

• superposition

• unconformity

• geologic column

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