ESS: 8.1 practice

Oldest rock layer is at the bottom and the youngest rock layer is at the top if not disturbed

• Law of energy

• Law of Thermodynamics

• Law of Superposition

• Law of Conservation of Matter

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The root word "STRATA" means

• Ground

• Earth

• Layer

• All of these

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Uniformitarianism is when Earth natural processes form...

• Suddenly

• Slowly

• None of these

Father of Geology

• Isaac Newton

• Bill Nye

• James Hutton

• James Charles

Layers of rocks and fossils can give you an approximate age of an object. This is called?

• Relative Age Dating

• Absolute Age Dating

• Caron 14 Dating

• Radioactive Age Dating

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What's missing? Index fossils must be: found around there world, lived in a short time span on earth, must be unique and.....

• Found in clusters

• Found in the oldest layer of rock

• Found at the bottom of the oceanic crust

• none of these

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What are the four time frames of Earth. From longest to Shortest.

• Eon, Epoch, Period, Era

• Era, Period, Eon, Epoch

• Eon, Era, Period, Epoch

• None of these

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Why don't we have much evidence/information about the Precambrian Time Frame

• Evidence was lost due to the chaotic environment

• Humans were not living during that time frame

• None of these

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

The age of aquatic life is called

• Precambrian

• Mesozoic

• Paleozoic

• Cenozoic

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1