Unit 7 Test Review

The remains of a once-living organism found in layers of rock, ice, or amber.

• fossil

• trace fossil

• geologic column

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The time required for half the quantity of a radioactive material to decay

• absolute dating

• relative dating

• half-life

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

the theory stating that Earth's lithosphere is made up of large plates that are in constant motion

• Continental Drift

• Pangaea

• Tectonic Plate

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

the process in which a radioactive isotope tends to break down into a stable isotope

• relative dating

• absolute dating

• radioactive decay

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

This states that younger rocks lie above older rocks if rock layers are undisturbed.

• Law of Rocks

• Law of Fossils

• Law of Superposition

Which of these choices is NOT an example of a trace fossil?

• burrow in the sea floor

• insect in amber

• coprolite in sediment

What is the difference between weather and climate?

• How they are measured

• Length of time which they are measured

• Only weather includes temperature measurements

If a team of scientists is drilling for specimens in Antartica, they are drilling for...

• sea-floor sediments

• ice core

• fossils

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

If a team of scientists is drilling for specimens in the Pacific, they are drilling for...

• sea-floor sediments

• ice core

• fossils

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

How would you determine the age of Earth when life first appeared if you know that it was at least 3.5 billion years ago?

• Add the number to the age of Earth

• Subtract the number from the age of Earth

• Mutliply the number by the age of Earth

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4