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WorksheetsUNIT E&F
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 14mins
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Class
Date
1.
Which best describes a fossil that helps determine the relative age of a rock layer?
a)
trace fossil
b)
index fossil
c)
radioactive fossil
d)
unconformity fossil
2.
When every organism of a species has died.
a)
Evolution
b)
Natural Selection
c)
Extinction
d)
Artificial Selection
3.
Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.
a)
Evolution
b)
Natural Selection
c)
Extinction
d)
Artifical Selection
4.
Survival of the Fittest and Evolution were proposed by what scientist?
a)
Charles Darwin
b)
Albert Einstein
c)
Steven Hawking
d)
Isaac Newton
5.
A change in an organism's genetic material that causes differences among organisms of a population.
a)
Mutation
b)
Environmental factor
c)
Variation
d)
Half-life
6.
Which of the following is NOT something you could learn from a fossil?
a)
The size of the animal
b)
What the animal ate
c)
The color of the animal
d)
Where the animal lived
7.
What happens when a group of animals become extinct?
a)
All of its members have died.
b)
Only a few of its members are still living.
c)
The animals can no longer lay eggs.
d)
All of its members move to another place.
8.
The hardened remains of a living thing that died long ago.
a)
extinct
b)
cast
c)
fossil
d)
bone
9.
Which type of fossil would look just like an actual body part of a once-living thing?
a)
a cast
b)
a trace
atrace
atrace
c)
a mineral
d)
a footprint
10.
Which is an imprint fossil?
a)
bone
b)
a cast
c)
petrified wood
d)
an animal track
11.
In which type of rock are most fossils found?
a)
igneous
b)
sedimentary
c)
volcanic
d)
metamorphic
12.
In this rock layer diagram there are two unconformities, a fault at E and an intrusion at D. Which unconformity occurred first? How do you know?
a)
Intrusion D occurred first because the instrusion has been moved by the fault.
b)
The fault occurred first because it has moved the intrusion D.
c)
Intrusion D occurred first because it can be seen in all of the rock layers.
d)
Fault E occurred first because it is a normal fault.
13.
Which rock layer or unconformity is most recent?
a)
B
b)
C
c)
D
d)
E
14.
What causes rocks to break down? (Typically by wind or water)
a)
Weathering
b)
Erosion
c)
Deposition
d)
Cementation
15.
the carrying of sediment to a new location, typically by winder or water
a)
weathering
b)
sediment
c)
erosion
d)
cememtation
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