6th Science Ch 10 Review

Which of the following is NOT a fossil?

• A dead animal on the side of the road

• A mammoth inside of ice

• A "million" year old bacteria

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Which of the following has the best chance at becoming a fossil?

• a bone

• a leaf

• a jellyfish

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Which of the following is a trace fossil?

• A carbon film of a leaf

• A dinosaur bone in rock

• A t-rex footprint

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What is relative age?

• An exact age of a rock or fossil

• A radiometric age of a rock or fossil

• Age with respect to other rocks

What is half-life?

• Numerical age of 1/2 of daughter isotopes

• Numerical age of a rock

• Time for 1/2 of isotope to decay

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

What object could be dated using carbon-14?

• Earth itself

• Sedimentary rock

• Insect in amber

If you wanted to date Earth's oldest rocks, which isotope would you want?

• Long half-life

• Short half-life

• Multiple half-lives

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

Match the following

• Uniformitarianism

• Today's processes are the same as in the past

• Lateral continuity

• Oldest rocks are at the bottom

• Cross-cutting relationships

• Earth's features changes quickly

• Catastrophism

• One feature cuts across another and is older

• Superposition

• Sediment is deposited in large sheets

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Match the following

• Catastrophism

• Oldest rocks are at the bottom

• Superposition

• Matching rocks at different locations

• Lateral Continuity

• Earth's features change quickly

• Original Horizontality

• Rock materials are deposited in horizontal layers

• Correlation

• Sediment is deposited in large sheets

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Which rock is the oldest?

• A

• B

• D

• H

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