Rock Record

Fossils can provide evidence of how life has changed over time, how Earth's surface has changed, and clues about what past environments were like.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

If you found a rock containing a very complex fossil, you could infer that the rock is 

• relatively young

• very old

• igneous

• metamorphic

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The best index fossils have which two traits?

• widespread geographically, long lifespan

• widespread geographically, short lifespan

• specific place, long lifespan

• specific place, short lifespan

Which rock layer is the youngest?

• A

• B

• D

• F

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Which rock layer is the oldest?

• A

• B

• D

• F

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

What can you infer about the rocks that formed at the bottom of this formation?

• The rocks are older than those above them because the principle of superposition states that the oldest rocks are on the bottom

• The rocks are younger than those above them because the principle of superposition states that the youngest rocks are on the bottom

• The rocks are older than those above them because the principle of original horizontality states that the oldest rocks are on the bottom

• The rocks are younger than those above them because the principle of original horizontality states that the youngest rocks are on the bottom

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Which principle states that geologic processes that occur today are similar to those that occurred in the past?

• superposition

• cross-cutting relationships

• inclusions

• uniformitarianism

Which principle states that the oldest rocks are at the bottom in undisturbed rock layers

• uniformitarianism

• superposition

• lateral continuity

• original horizontality

What principle states that sediments are deposited in large, continuous sheets

• lateral continuity

• cross cutting relationships

• uniformitarianism

• superposition

Which principle states that if one geologic feature cuts across another feature, the feature it cuts across is older?

• superposition

• uniformitarianism

• cross cutting relationships

• original horizontality