geologic timeline review

What is the Geologic Time Scale

• How geologists divide Earth´s history

• How biologists divide the evolution of life

• How archeologists divide the fossil record

• All are incorrect

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What type of fossils are generally found in older rocks?

• small and simple fossils

• big and simple fossils

• big and complex fossils

• there are no fossils in older rocks

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What type of evidence was used to construct the geologic time scale?

• abrupt changes in the fossil record

• small changes in the fossil record

• the change in layer composition

• geologists decide based on personal reasons

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According to paleontologists, how old is the Earth?

• 3.5 Billion Years Old

• 543 Million Years Old

• 57 Million Years Old

• 4.6 Billion Years Old

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Analyze the layers of undisturbed sedimentary rock. Which layer of sedimentary rock is oldest?

• Q

• R

• S

• T

• U

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a fossil that is used to establish the age of a rock layer because the fossil is distinct, abundant, and widespread and the species that formed that fossil existed for only a short span of geologic time

• index fossil

• fossil record

• fossil

• relative age

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Scientists chose where units of geologic time began and ended based on major changes in life forms at certain times.

• true
• false

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

___________ a record of the geologic events and the evolution of life forms as shown in the fossil record. 

• Eras
• Geologic Time Scale

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A piece of an older rock that becomes part of a new rock

• inclusion

• superposition

• correlation

• unconformity

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Surface where rock has eroded away, producing a break in the rock record

• correlation

• inclusion

• superposition

• unconformity