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Earth History

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the time it takes for half of the atoms in a radioactive element to break down?

a)

adaptation

b)

absolute age

c)

half-life

d)

paleontologist

2.

What is the single-stranded nucleic acid that contains the sugar ribose?

a)

deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)

b)

absolute age

c)

nucleic acid

d)

ribonucleic acid (RNA)

3.

What law states: in undisturbed rock layers, the oldest rocks are on the bottom and the youngest rocks are on the top?

a)

law of lateral continuity

b)

law of superposition

c)

law of original horizontality

d)

law of cross-cutting relationships

4.

What is the term for a fossil that is useful for dating and correlating the strata in which it is found?

a)

index fossils

b)

nuclear fusion

c)

fossilization

d)

unconformity

5.

What is the double-helical molecule that carries the hereditary information of the cell?

a)

geologic time scale

b)

ribonucleic acid (RNA)

c)

radioactive decay

d)

deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)

6.

What is the process by which hydrogen atoms join together to form helium, releasing energy?

a)

nuclear fusion

b)

fossilization

c)

index fossils

d)

adaptation

7.

What is cell without a nucleus?

a)

eukaryote

b)

prokaryote

c)

procoyote

d)

eucoyote

8.

What is a scientist who studies fossils to learn about organisms that lived long ago?

a)

anthropologist

b)

archeologiest

c)

fossilogist

d)

paleontologist

9.

What is the middle era of Earth's geological history; reptiles were dominant?

a)

Paleozoic Era

b)

Mesozoic Era

c)

Cenozoic Era

d)

Middlezoic Era

10.

What are atoms of the same element that differ in the number of neutrons they contain called?

a)

mesotope

b)

lycanthrope

c)

dyscontope

d)

isotope

11.

What is the geologic era with the first signs of life?

a)

Paleozoic Era

b)

Mesozoic Era

c)

Paleontologist Era

d)

Cenozoic Era

12.

What is the process of adapting to something, such as environmental conditions?

a)

eventolution

b)

adoption

c)

adaptation

d)

evolution

13.

What is the actual the number of years that have passed since the rock formed known as ?

a)

absolute age

b)

relative age

c)

chronological age

d)

actual age

14.

What is the warm, moist climate zone near the equator?

a)

trophic

b)

trepadatious

c)

trollic

d)

tropical

15.

What is the layer of gases that surrounds Earth known as?

a)

lithosphere

b)

hydorsphere

c)

atmosphere

d)

biosphere

16.

When sediment deposited into water will settle at the bottom in flat, horizontal layers, this is known as which scientific law?

a)

law of cross-cutting relationships

b)

law of superposition

c)

law of radiometrics

d)

law of original horizontality

17.

What is a cell that contains a nucleus and membrane bound organelles?

a)

Eurkaryote

b)

Eurcoyote

c)

Prokaryote

d)

Procoyote

18.

What is the study of rock layers and the sequence of events they reflect?

a)

stratus-gratis

b)

stratophotography

c)

stratigraphy

d)

stratospherics

19.

What is era that began about 66 million years ago, known as the "Age of Mammals" the current geologic era?

a)

Paleozoic Era

b)

Mesozoic Ero

c)

Teriaric Era

d)

Cenozoic Era

20.

What is one form of radiometric dating used to find the age of dead organisms thousands of years old?

a)

carbon-24 dating

b)

radiometric dating

c)

radioactive decay

d)

carbon-14 dating

21.

What is it called when living material is replaced with mineral substances in the remains of an organism?

a)

adaption

b)

evolution

c)

fossilization

d)

coagulation

22.

What is the spontaneous process in which unstable nuclei lose energy by emitting radiation?

a)

radioactive decay

b)

radioactive dating

c)

radiometric dating

d)

radioflyer decay

23.

Identify the gas phase of water.

a)

hail

b)

water vapor

c)

ice

d)

none of these

24.

During what era did the oldest known rocks form?

a)

Hadean Eon

b)

Archean Eon

c)

Protozoic Eon

d)

Eukarotic Eon

25.

How is the age of rocks determined by using the rate of decay of radioactive isotopes?

a)

radiometric dating

b)

radioactive dating

c)

speed dating

d)

radiodiametric dating

26.

The law that states rock layers continue out to the side in all directions...

a)

law of original horizontality

b)

law of lateral continuity

c)

law of superposition

d)

law of cross-cutting relationships

27.

What is a sedimentary layer or rock that serves as a time marker in the rock record?

a)

key bed

b)

index bed

c)

key fossil

d)

index fossil

28.

What is the age of a rock compared to the ages of rock layers known as?

a)

absolute age

b)

relativitism

c)

relative age

d)

absolutism

29.

What is the gradual change in a species over time know as?

a)

evocation

b)

adaptation

c)

evolution

d)

advancement

30.

What is a gap in the sequence of rock layers?

a)

uniformity

b)

conformity

c)

unconformity

d)

none of these

31.

What is the eon where fossils of eukaryotic cells appear?

a)

Proterozoic Eon

b)

Preterozoic Eon

c)

Precolumbian Eon

d)

Procolumbian Eon

32.

What is a term for an ancient landmass which separated into present-day continents?

a)

all of these

b)

country

c)

continent

d)

supercontinent

33.

What is the standard method used to divide the Earth's long natural history into manageable parts?

a)

geographic time scale

b)

geologic time scale

c)

geometric time scale

d)

geomental time scale

34.

What law infers that a rock body cutting through another rock body is younger than the layers it intrudes?

a)

law of original horizontality

b)

law of superposition

c)

law of cross-cutting relationships

d)

law of undersuposition

35.

What is any difference between cells, individual organisms, or groups of organisms of any species caused either by genetic differences or by the effect of environmental factors?

a)

evolution

b)

adaptation

c)

variation

d)

modification