11.2 WS

Natural laws never change.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-PS1-5

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

Steno correctly explained how marine fossils could end up on mountains far from an ocean.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Fossils in a rock layer represent the organisms that lived when the rock was formed.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

The oldest rock layers in the Grand Canyon are at the top.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

A fault is always older than the rock layers it cuts through.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Nicholas Steno was the first scientist to question the Biblical age of Earth.

• True

• False

William Smith is often called the father of modern geology.

• True

• False

Rocks in different places that have the same index fossils are about the same age.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Microfossils are useful index fossils because they are so widespread.

• True

• False

The oldest ages are at the top of the geologic time scale.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4