Fossils

Letters A, B, C, and D represent 4 different marine fossils found in these rock layers. Which letter best represents an index fossil?

• A

• B

• C

• D

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Letters A, B, C, and D represent 4 different marine fossils found in these rock layers. Which letter best an index fossil?

• A

• B

• C

• D

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Outcrops A,B,C, and D are located within 15 kilometers of each other. When the rock layers at outcrops A, B, C and D are correlated, which outcrop contains the youngest layer?

• A

• B

• C

• D

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During which geologic period did plants and animals first appear in land environments?

• Cambrian

• Ordovician

• Silurian

• Devonian

The division of Earth's geologic history into units of time called eons, eras, periods, and epochs is based on

• absolute dating techniques

• fossil evidence

• climatic changes

• seismic data

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Studies of the rock record suggest that

• the period during which humans have existed is very brief compared to geologic time

• evidence of the existence of humans is present over much of the geologic past

• humans first appeared at the time of the intrusion of the Palisades sill

• the earliest humans lived at the same time as the dinosaurs

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Which organisms were alive when New York State was last covered by a continental ice sheet?

• Eurypterus and Cooksonia

• Aneurophyton and Naples Tree

• mastodont and Beluga whale

• Coelophysis and Elliptocephala

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When did the earliest humans appear on Earth?

• before the earliest dinosaurs

• before the earliest flowering plants

• during the Pleistocene Epoch

• during the Late Triassic Epoch

A very large, circular, impact crater under the coast of Mexico is believed to be approximately 65 million years old. This impact event is inferred to be related to the

• appearance of the earliest trilobites

• advance and retreat of the last continental ice sheet

• extinction of the dinosaurs

• formation of Pangea

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During which geologic time period did the earliest reptiles and great coal-forming forests exist?

• Devonian

• Quaternary

• Mississippian

• Pennsylvanian

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