Fossils and Weathering review

Fossils of the same age and same type of species of an animal is discovered on two different continents. The discovery helps support which idea?

• Geocentric Theory

• Continental Drift

• Evolutionary Theory

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Which process is primarily responsible for the creation of new or very young soil? (soil or dirt found at the very top)

• weathering

• erosion

• plate tectonics

Which of the following is an example of chemical weathering?

• Running water carves a valley through Fort Mountain.

• Wind caused the formation of arches in the rocks at Big South Fork in Tennessee.

• Limestone gravestones in Georgia dissolve in acid rain.

If you found a marine animal fossil on top of Brasstown Bald in the mountains of North Georgia you could hypothesize that

• The area was once higher

• The fossil was transported by moving glaciers

• The area was once underwater

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which type of rocks weathers to form sediments

• All types of rocks can weather to form sediments

• igneous

• metamorphic

• sedimentary

__________ is the process in which materials, such as rock, are broken down by forces in nature, such as wind and water

• chemical weathering

• erosion

• mechanical weathering

• deposition

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

__________ is when a chemical change takes place in the rock or rock particles (example: acid rain falling on a statue)

• mechincal weathering

• chemical weathering

• deposition

• erosion

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

_______ the amount of mass in a given volume/object

• density

• deposition

• weight

• sediments

the deposting or dropping of rock material by water, wind, or glaciers

• weathering

• erosion

• deposition

• density

The process by which soil or weathered rock is moved (transported) by water, wind, or ice.

• erosion

• weathering

• deposition

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4