7.2 Ancestral History

Fossils provide evidence for all of the following EXCEPT:

• Change in organisms over time
• Change in environment over time
• Mass extinctions and extinct organism
• A complete record of all organisms that ever lived

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Fossils that form are often destroyed by all of the following EXCEPT

• Erosion
• Rock Cycle Processes
• Preserved in ice
• Weathering

The technique used by geologists to determine the ages of rock layers by using comparison with other rock layers or fossils.

• Absolute dating
• Half-life
• Principle of superposition
• Relative dating

Which statement about this set of rock layers is true?

• Layer B is older than layer D
• Layer A is the youngest
• Layer D is the youngest
• Layer C is older than layer D

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What is the oldest layer shown in the image?

• Layer A
• Layer D
• Layer E
• Layer F

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In undisturbed layers of rock, the oldest rocks are on the bottom and the rocks become younger toward the top, this describes __________.

• Relative dating
• Absolute dating
• Geologic Time Scale
• Principle of Superposition

If a fossil is abundant, widespread, and lived for a 'short' period of time, it is considered to be a(n) __________________________

• trace fossil
• index fossil
• important fossil
• petrified fossil

__________________ measures the amount of radioactive material a rock near a fossil contains.

• Half-life
• Relative dating
• Absolute dating
• Correlation

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The Earth is _____ billion years old

• 13.7
• 3.8
• 100
• 4.6

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The fossil record is complete.

• True
• False

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