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Earth's History of Change Notes Review

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What geologic principles (or laws) are best displayed here?

a)

Superposition

b)

Original horizontality

c)

Cross-cutting relationships

d)

Unconformities

2.

Which layer is OLDER? Layer M or Intrusion P?

a)

Layer M

b)

Intrusion P

3.
States that younger rocks lie above older rocks if the layers have not been disturbed
a)
Law of crosscutting
b)
Law of superposition
c)
Relative Dating
d)
Unconformity
4.
A break in the geologic record that is made when rock layers are eroded over a long period of time
a)
Law of Superposition
b)
Law of Crosscutting
c)
Relative Dating
d)
Unconformity
5.
How does the law of crosscutting explain the age of a fault?
a)
The fault is younger than the rocks above it.
b)
The fault is younger than the rocks it cuts through.
c)
The fault is older than the rocks above it.
d)
The fault is older than the rocks it cuts through.
6.
The length of time required for half of the radioactive atoms in a sample to decay is its...
a)
era
b)
age
c)
half-life
d)
eon
7.
Scientists use radioactive decay to measure...
a)
relative time
b)
absolute time
c)
half-lives
d)
time of day
8.

If the half-life of a radioactive group of atoms is 100 years, then how old is the rock if there have been two half-lives?

a)

25 years

b)

200 years

c)

400 years

d)

800 years

9.

This process, which forms planets, occurs when gravity makes planetesimals collide. This creates great heat which melts and fuses the materials together.

a)

Differentiation

b)

Secretion

c)

Accretion

d)

Planetary formation

10.

Cyanobacteria photosynthesize and created waste gases which led to what???

a)

The great nitration event

b)

The great oxygenation event

c)

The great carbon dioxide event

d)

The great ozonification bifurcation event

11.

What is the main evidence for the great oxygenation event?

a)

Fossils known as BIF's

b)

Formations of rock known as the Banded Iron Formations

c)

BUF's

d)

Formations of rock known as the Banded Iridium Formations.

12.

Events that wipe out large percentages of living things are known as???

a)

Great dyings

b)

Extinctions

c)

Extinction Level Event

d)

Mass Extinctions