Patterns of Change in Life on Earth

Which of the following can be learned by using the fossil record?

• When organisms changed or evolved

• when organisms appeared on Earth

• when organisms became extinct

• All the above

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

In the Cambrian era, the creatures live MOSTLY in...

• the ocean

• the ice

• the grass

Trilobites were present in the Cambrian

• TRUE

• FALSE

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Trilobites had an exoskeleton

• TRUE

• FALSE

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Species that cannot adapt to environmental changes can become?

• adaptations

• extinct

• shells

• size

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Some Phanerozoic life-forms left behind fossilized ______?

• adaptations

• extinct

• shells

• size

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

If you know the age of a rock, you know the relative age of the _________________ that was found inside.

• sticky tar

• fossil

• amber

• ice

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

In what way can scientists determine the ages of fossils?

• relative dating

• radioactive dating

• law of superposition

• All of the above

By determining the age of fossils, scientists can reconstruct the history of life on Earth

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

If scientists found this fossil in a desert, what could they infer?

• what fish are like today

• that this fish lacked oxygen

• that water once covered the area where this fossil was found

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1