Geology Unit 1: An Intro to Deep Time (Review)

How old is the Earth?

• 13.7 billion years

• 4.54 billion years

• 4.54 million years

• 4004 years

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Apply Steno's Principles to place the following events/layers in order from oldest to youngest.

• A,C,G,P,L,S,B,D,J,M

• J,D,M,B,S,P,L,G,C,A

• A,C,G,S,P,B,D,J,L,M

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Complete the following statement:

James Hutton, the father of modern geology, told us that in order to understand a part of Earth's past, we have to look no further than the _. This idea is the foundation for the Principle of Uniformitarianism.

(a)  

Select ALL of Steno's Principles of Geology:

• The Principle of Superposition

• The Principle of Original Horizontality

• The Principle of Cross-cutting Relationships

• The Principle of Lateral Continuity

• The Principle of Fossil Succession

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Select the TWO primary energy sources that power the Earth system.

• The Sun

• Supernovae

• Gravitational Waves

• Earth's Interior Thermal Energy

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Earth's interior thermal energy is the result of _ and _. (select two)

• leftover heat from formation (accretion)

• hydrogen fusion

• radioactivity

• electrical current

TRUE OR FALSE: The Earth system is a mostly closed system because most of the matter in the system remains constant while energy continuously flows in and out.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-6

TRUE or FALSE:

The last tyrannosaurus Rex lived closer in time to Charli XCX than it did to the stegosaurus.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Positive feedback refers to a system where the original stimulus _.

• increases

• decreases

• remains unchanged

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3

Negative feedback refers to a system where the original stimulus _.

• increases

• decreases

• remains unchanged

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3