Fossil Evidence of Evolution

_________ occurs when many different kinds of living things become extinct within a few million years or less.

• Evolution

• Biological Evolution

• Extinction

• Mass Extinction

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NGSS.HS-LS4-5

The ___________ is a chart that divides Earth's history into different time units.

• relative-age dating

• geologic time scale

• absolute-age dating

• theory of evolution

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Change over time is ________.

• Evolution

• Biological Evolution

• Extinction

• Mass Extinction

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

A ________ is the preserved evidence of the activity of an organism.

• cast

• trace fossil

• mold

• carbonization

Extinctions can occur when environments go through ________ or _________

• evolution

• sudden changes

• biological evolution

• gradual changes

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

________ occurs when the last individual of a species dies.

• Evolution

• Biological Evolution

• Extinction

• Mass Extinction

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

The geologic time scale is divided into:

• eras

• eons

• centuries

• periods

• epochs

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

This dating method is used to find a rock's age in years through use of radioactive decay.

• relative-age dating

• absolute-age dating

This dating method does not provide a rock's age in years but it compares it as younger or older than the rocks near it (comparison).

• Absolute-age dating

• Relative-age dating

In ________, only the carbon outline, or film, of the organism is left behind.

• mineralization

• molds

• carbonization

• casts