This type of dating gives a “ball park” estimate of the age of an object, fossil or event:

• radiometric dating

• absolute dating

• relative dating

• baseball dating

In the following examples: what was the earliest form of multicellular life on Earth?

• reptiles

• fish

• land plants

• invertebrates

In the following examples, which is the correct chronological order of organisms as they developed?

• prokaryotes, jawed fish, dinosaurs, birds

• dinosaurs, jawed fish, birds, prokaryotes

• jawed fish, dinosaurs, prokaryotes, birds

• birds, dinosaurs, jawed fish, prokaryotes

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What was the source of the original atmosphere of early Earth?

• meteorite impacts

• volcanoes/outgassing from rocks

• light elements from space

• None of the responses are correct

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What was the significance of the Cambrian explosion to the evolution of life on Earth?

• It was a mass extinction during which nearly 90% of marine species were lost.

• It was caused by tectonic instability, resulting in an eruption of multiple volcanoes.

• It was a rapid diversification of the ancestors of most major animal groups.

• It was the event in which life began, but no fossils survive and little is known.

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NGSS.HS-LS4-1

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What was the essential experimental difference between the flasks in Pasteur’s demonstration of biogenesis?

• the contact of the nutrient broth with air

• the angle of tilt of the flasks

• the composition of the nutrient broth

• the contact of the broth with microorganisms

This shows major geological and biological in Earth’s history:

• Index Fossils

• Geologic Time Scale

• Founder Effect

• Biogeochemical Cycle

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

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Any preserved evidence of an organism:

• fossil

• homologous structure

• vestigal structure

• analogous structure

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

This states that "Life comes from life.":

• biogenesis

• abiogenesis

• spontaneous generation

• bottleneck effect

The amount of time it takes for half of a radioactive substance to decay:

• quarter-life

• full-life

• half-life

• no-life

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8