Fossils and Age of the Earth

Which best describes a fossil that helps determine the relative age of a rock layer?

• trace fossil
• index fossil
• radioactive fossil
• unconformity fossil

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What role do faults play in the Law of Superposition?

• Faults create new types of rock.
• Faults are younger than the layers they cut through.
• Faults are the same age as the layers they cut through.

Which statement best describes the Law of Superposition?

• Each sedimentary layer of rock represents 1,000 years of Earth's age, much like the rings of a tree.
• In undisturbed layers of sedimentary rocks, the upper rock layers are older than the lower rock layers.
• In undisturbed layers of sedimentary rock, the lowest layers contain the older rocks.
• Rocks that form near volcanoes are older than surrounding rock.

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Which time period on the chart was the longest?

• Permian
• Cambrian

Which layer of rock is most likely the youngest?

• A
• D

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Many marine fossils are found in what is now desert. Which hypothesis best explains this?

• The desert was once an ocean
• Marine organisms lived on land in the past

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the system of time measurement involving the formation of  and changes to Earth

• geology
• biology
• gotta stay FLY
• geologic time scale

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the action of water flow or wind that remove soil and rock from one location on the Earth's crust, then transport it to another location where it is deposited.

• erosion
• degredation
• law of conservation of mass
• mastery assessment

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What is the most logical conclusion about a layer of rock near the top of a canyon?

• The layers near the top are older than layers below.
• The layers near the top are younger than layers below.
• The top layer will have more fossils than layers below.
• The top layer will have less fossils than layers below.
  

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The image shows fossils found in a section of sedimentary rock.In which layer are the oldest fossils found?

• Layer A
• Layer B
  
• Layer C
• Layer D
  

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