Geologic Time Analyzing the Rock and Fossil Record

This is a piece of a rock that has been broken off and become part of a new rock.

• inclusion

• exclusion

• intrusion

• infusion

• exfoliation

What geologic principle(or law) is best displayed here?

• Superposition

• Original horizontality

• Cross-cutting relationships

• Inclusions

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

What is the idea that geologic processes are occurring now are the same as those that occurred in the past?

• Unconformities

• Uniformitarianism

• Epicism

What type of dating indicates an approximate age of a fossil in relationship to other layers of rock in an area?

• Relative dating

• Absolute Dating

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

What type of dating indicates a specific age of a rock?

• Relative Dating

• Absolute Dating

In layers of sedimentary rock, the _________ layer is usually at the bottom. Each higher layer is _________ than the layers below it.

• oldest, younger

• youngest, older

• youngest, younger

• oldest, older

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Inclusions are younger than the formation of sedimentary rock layers that surround them.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The Law of Crosscutting states that a fault or inclusion is __________ than the bodies of rock it cuts through.

• younger

• older

• funnier

• nastier

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The idea that sedimentary rocks are deposited in horizontal layers unless disturbed by forces within the Earth can best be explained by which principle?

• Principle of horizontality

• Principle of Superposition

• Principle of original lateral continuity

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

What scientific law tells us that if one rock layer crosses over other layers, then that layer of rock will be younger than any rock layers that it crosses?

• Cross-cutting

• Original Horizontality

• Unconformities

• Inclusions