EOG Review - EES 1.1-1.2

Which statement BEST describes the changes in the environment in this location?

• Multiple layers of fish fossils indicate that the environment has always been a marine environment.

• Fish and insect fossils in the same layer indicate a change from a land environment to a marine environment.

• Dinosaur fossils over fish fossils indicate a change from a marine environment to a land environment.

• Insect fossils under dinosaur fossils indicate the environment has always been a land environment.

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What is a divergent boundary?

• When two plates move toward each other

• When two plates move away from each other

• When two plates slide past each other

• When two plates do not move

What is the main cause of the physical features observed on Earth today?

• Weather patterns

• Movement of tectonic plates

• Human activity

• Ocean currents

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

How does Layer A compare to Layer G?

• Layer A is older than Layer G.

• Layer A is younger than Layer G.

• Layer A and Layer G are the oldest layers in their locations.

• Layer A and Layer G are the youngest layers in their locations.

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What can scientists learn by comparing the positions of the rock layers of the two locations?

• They can learn the relative time that each rock layer formed.

• They can learn the specific date that each rock layer formed.

• They can predict future natural disasters that will affect life in the region.

• They can predict the how organisms in the region will change in the future.

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What can scientists learn by comparing the positions of the rock layers of the two locations?

• They can learn the relative time that each rock layer formed.

• They can learn the specific date that each rock layer formed.

• They predict future natural disasters that will affect life in the region.

• They can predict how organisms in the region will change in the future.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Which two rock layers are the same age?

• Layers A and F

• Layers E and H

• Layers C and G

• Layers D and F

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Use the drop-down menus below to explain how rock fossil records can be used. Rock fossil layers can be used to determine the ​ (a)   time frame in which certain organisms lived.

• Relative
• Absolute

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Scientisis can also predict when ​​ (a)   occurred since the rock layers show that a particular organism is no longer present.

• Mass population growth
• an extinction event

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Which pattern is present in the rock layers at both locations?

• The oldest rock layer has marine fossils.

• The oldest rock layer has plant fossils.

• The youngest rock layer has marine fossils.

• The youngest rock layer has plant fossils.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3