Earth History

Earth History

8th Grade

25 Qs

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Earth History

Earth History

Assessment

Quiz

Science

8th Grade

Hard

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

+3

Standards-aligned

Created by

Lisa Thompson

FREE Resource

25 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which best describes a fossil that helps determine the relative age of a rock layer?

trace fossil

index fossil

radioactive fossil

unconformity fossil

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

Which layer of rock is most likely the youngest?

A

D

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

What is stratigraphy?

the study of the fossilized remains of plants and animals

the study of the layers of rock

the study of how the continents have moved and are still moving

the study of how carbon is stored in Earth's permafrost

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Younger rocks lie above older rocks, if layers are left undisturbed.

Uniformitarianism

Catastrophism

Law of Crosscutting

Law of Superposition

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Fossilized teeth from an extinct shark were found embedded in a rock layer at the base of a mountain, several hundred kilometers (km) from the nearest ocean.  Which of the following statements best explains why the rock layer cannot be igneous rock?

The melting process would have destroyed the fossil.

Weathering and erosion would have broken up the fossil.

The rock was found at an inland location away from heat and pressure.

Repeated volcanic eruptions would have buried the fossil too deeply to be found.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

6.

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

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Imprints of the shells of ocean clams are often found in the rocks of the Appalachian Mountains. What is most likely indicated by these imprint fossils?

Mountain river clams evolved from ocean clams.

Ocean clams evolved from mountain river clams.

These mountains once had a more rainy climate.

These mountains were once under the ocean.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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