Test Review geo fossil-disturbances

What does uniformitarianism mean?

• Geologic processes that occur suddenly.

• Unpredictable events that cause rapid changes over large areas.

• Geologic processes that have happened in the past are the same processes today.

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What does catastrophism mean?

• Geologic processes that occur suddenly.

• Unpredictable events that cause rapid changes over large areas.

• Geologic processes that have happened in the past are the same processes today.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What is relative dating?

• Younger layers are on top of older deposits.

•  Determining whether an object/event is younger or older than another rock layer or fossil.

• the intrusion/fault is YOUNGER than the rock it cuts through

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

This image shows a fault.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

This image shows a picture of an intrusion.

• False

• True

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

This picture shows folding.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

This picture shows an example of tilting.

• False

• True

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

__________ is a layer of sediment that has been removed or was never deposited and is missing from the geologic column.

Which definition explains tilting?

• A break in Earth's curst.

• Layers that have been compressed.

• (igneous) Magma that has pushed through layers of sediment and solidified.

• Layers that are push/moved and angeled.

Which definition explains folding?

• A break in Earth's curst.

• Layers that have been compressed.

• (igneous) Magma that has pushed through layers of sediment and solidified.

• Layers that are push/moved and angeled.

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1