Earth's History and Fossil Record Test Review

Changes in a species environment and competition from other species can cause ...

• a species to go extinct.

• an asteroid impact

• sedimentary rocks to form

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A mass extinction is

• when a large number of species go extinct around the same time and in a large scale

• an extinction of a species that weighs a lot

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

All species eventually become...

• radioactive

• extinct.

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Absolute and relative dating are the same because....

• both types of dating fossils scientists gain information about the life and history of Earth

• Relative dating uses the sequence of rocks and the fossils that are around them to put them in order and develop an age sequence

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

What is the calendar that scientists have created that shows the history of the earth?

• The periodic table of elements

• The geological time scale

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Which statement is true about what scientists can infer about fossils?

• The environment that they lived in.

• If the organisms liked school

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Which fossil is older than a dinosaur bone?

• fern leaf

• fish

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Which is the oldest fossil according to the image?

• fern leaf

• human bone

• fish

• horseshoe crab

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Which is the youngest fossil according to the image?

• fern leaf

• human bone

• fish

• horseshoe crab

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

How does absolute dating work?

• It can tell if a rock has DNA in it or not

• it uses radioactive elements in rocks to determine an age range of rocks and fossils

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