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Geologic Time Test Study Guide

Authored by dade duran

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9th Grade

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Geologic Time Test Study Guide
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The geologic time scale enables scientists to find relationships among which things?

Rocks and fossils

Planets and stars

Animals and plants

Oceans and rivers

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2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The three earliest eons, which make up 90% of geologic time are informally called the?

Hadean, Archean, and Proterozoic

Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic

Cambrian, Ordovician, and Silurian

Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Geologic time units are defined by:

the age of rocks and fossils

the position of stars

the weather patterns

the ocean currents

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4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

An event during which many groups of organisms disappear from the rock record at about the same time is called?

Mass extinction

Evolution

Speciation

Adaptation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is relative age dating?

A method to determine the exact age of a rock or fossil

A technique to arrange geological events in a sequence

A process to find the age of the Earth

A way to date fossils using radiometric techniques

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A gap in the rock record caused by weathering and erosion is called:

Unconformity

Sedimentary layer

Fossil record

Metamorphic zone

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7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Unconformities, disconformity, nonconformity, and angular unconformity are types of what?

Geological formations

Weather patterns

Biological classifications

Chemical reactions

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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