Geologic Time Analyzing the Rock and Fossil Record

Rocks and fossils preserve many examples of these when many species on Earth died or became extinct within a relatively short time.

• mass extinction

• mass wasting

• mass preservation

• invasive species

• meteor impacts

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

These Principles include Superposition, Original Horizontality, Lateral Continuity, Cross-Cutting Relationships, and Inclusion.

• Steno's Principles of Relative-Age Dating

• Hutton's Principle of Uniformitarianism

• Saltzer's Principles of Classroom Management

• Archimede's Principles of Buoyancy

• Bernouli's Principles of Buoyancy

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

According to scientists, the Earth is approximately this many years old.

• 4.6 billion

• 13.7 billion

• 7.0 billion

• 5.0 billion

• 3.4 million

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

He was a Scottish naturalist and farmer who came up with the Principle of Uniformitarianism. He is considered the person who developed the idea of geologic time and proposed that the Earth was much older than people thought at the time.

• James Hutton

• Nicolaus Steno

• James Newton

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Nicolaus Tesla

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The mineralized remains of organisms and the rock layers in which they are found

• Fossil

• Rock Strata

• Stratigraphy

• Fossil Record

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

A break or a gap in the geologic record when rock layers are eroded over a long period of time, "losing" those rocks

• fault

• fold

• unconformity

• cross-cutting

Process that uses the properties of atoms in rocks and other objects to determine their ages 

• relative dating

• radioactive decay 

• absolute dating

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

The period of geologic time when the biodiversity of life on the planet increased dramatically was

• Jurassic

• Triassic

• Permian

• Cambrian

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Which of the following would be an example of absolute age?

• Fossil A is older than Fossil B

• Fossil A and Fossil B are the same age

• Fossil A is 10 million years old

This is the actual age of something.

• absolute age

• relative age

• superposition

• uniform

• fossils