Relative

Relative

8th Grade

25 Qs

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Relative

Relative

Assessment

Quiz

Science

8th Grade

Hard

NGSS
MS-ESS1-4, MS-ESS2-2, MS-ESS2-3

Standards-aligned

Created by

Lisa Thompson

FREE Resource

25 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

What are the relative ages of the features in order from oldest to youngest?

Limestone, Basalt, Fault, Siltstone

Siltstone, Fault, Basalt, Limestone

Limestone, Fault, Basalt, Siltstone

Limestone, Siltstone, Fault, Basalt

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

Which of the following is the oldest?

Layer L

Intrusion D

Intrusion H

Layer E

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Used to determine whether an object is older or younger than other objects

Superposition

Relative Dating

Fossil

Unconformity

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

How does the law of crosscutting explain the age of a fault?

The fault is younger than the rocks above it.

The fault is younger than the rocks it cuts through.

The fault is older than the rocks above it.

The fault is older than the rocks it cuts through.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Describe relative density-

how dense something is compared with a reference material

if something conducts energy

sinks

has magnetism

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A person in a moving car looks out at a fence along the roadside. The fence will look as if it is moving. This is an example of

a unit of measurement

changing speed

relative motion

measurement of distance

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 4 pts

What is Relative Density?

a substance or object that does not allow energy to flow through it easily

anything that has mass and takes up space

properties of matter that can be observed, measured, or changed without changing the matter itself

floating or sinking when compared to water

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