
The Environment and Change Over Time
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6Why is it difficult for scientists to absolute-age date sedimentary rock formations using isotopes?
Sedimentary rocks are composed of particles from other rocks, making it hard to date them directly.
Isotopes are not present in sedimentary rocks.
Sedimentary rocks are too young to be dated using isotopes.
The isotopes in sedimentary rocks decay too quickly.
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7. The geologic time scale is:
a system of chronological dating that relates geological strata to time
a method to measure the depth of the ocean
a scale to measure the height of mountains
a tool to predict weather patterns
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8. Name: Scientists use _______ to mark boundaries in the geologic time scale.
fossils
radiometric dating
stratigraphy
magnetic reversals
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Visual Check: List the following living organisms in the order in which they first appeared on Earth: humans, insects, single cells, dinosaurs.
Single cells, insects, dinosaurs, humans
Dinosaurs, single cells, insects, humans
Insects, single cells, humans, dinosaurs
Humans, dinosaurs, insects, single cells
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Use Scientific Notation: The first vertebrates appeared on Earth about 490,000,000 years ago. Express this time in scientific notation.
4.9 x 10^8 years ago
49 x 10^7 years ago
490 x 10^6 years ago
0.49 x 10^9 years ago
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Visual Check: Analyze when did the most recent mass extinction happen? Circle the name of the time period on the graph. About how long ago did it happen?
Cretaceous-Paleogene, 66 million years ago
Permian-Triassic, 252 million years ago
Triassic-Jurassic, 201 million years ago
Ordovician-Silurian, 444 million years ago
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Reading Check: Relate what is the relationship between extinction and environmental change?
Environmental change can lead to extinction by altering habitats and resources.
Extinction causes environmental change by removing species from ecosystems.
There is no relationship between extinction and environmental change.
Environmental change and extinction are unrelated phenomena.
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