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Science
8th
grade
Geologic Time: Analyzing the Rock and Fossil Record
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- 1. Multiple Choice
According to scientists, the Earth is approximately this many years old.
4.6 billion
13.7 billion
7.0 billion
5.0 billion
3.4 million
- 2. Multiple Choice
He was a Scottish naturalist and farmer who came up with the Principle of Uniformitarianism. He is considered the person who developed the idea of geologic time and proposed that the Earth was much older than people thought at the time.
James Hutton
Nicolaus Steno
James Newton
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Tesla
- 3. Multiple Choice
According to this Principle, geologic processes that occur today are similar to those that have occurred in the past.
Uniformitarianism
Superposition
Original Horizontality
Lateral Continuity
Cross-Cutting Relationships
- 4. Multiple Choice
This is the actual age of something.
absolute age
relative age
superposition
uniform
fossils
- 5. Multiple Choice
This is the age of rocks and geologic features as compared with other rocks and geologic features nearby.
relative age
absolute age
superposition
cross-cutting relationships
inclusions
- 6. Multiple Choice
This man developed a set of principles to compare the ages of rocks.
Nicolaus Steno
Nicolaus Copernicus
James Hutton
James Newton
Nicolaus Tesla
- 7. Multiple Choice
According to this Principle, in undisturbed rock layers, the oldest rocks are on the bottom.
Superposition
Original Horizontality
Lateral Continuity
Cross-cutting Relationships
Uniformitarianism
- 8. Multiple Choice
According to this Principle, sediments are deposited in large, flat sheets.
Original Horizontality
Superposition
Lateral Continuity
Cross-Cutting Relationships
Inclusion
- 9. Multiple Choice
According to this Principle, if one geologic feature cuts across another feature, the feature that it cuts across is older.
Cross-Cutting Relationships
Superposition
Original Horizontality
Lateral Continuity
Inclusion
- 10. Multiple Choice
According to this Principle, if one rock contains pieces of another rock, the rock containing the pieces is younger than the pieces of rock it contains.
Inclusion
Superposition
Cross-Cutting Relationships
Lateral Continuity
Original Horizontality
- 11. Multiple Choice
This is a piece of a rock that has been broken off and become part of a new rock.
inclusion
exclusion
intrusion
infusion
exfoliation
- 12. Multiple Choice
These are the preserved remains or evidence of ancient living things.
fossils
corals
teachers
rocks
boomers
- 13. Multiple Choice
Rocks and fossils preserve many examples of these when many species on Earth died or became extinct within a relatively short time.
mass extinction
mass wasting
mass preservation
invasive species
meteor impacts
- 14. Multiple Choice
These Principles include Superposition, Original Horizontality, Lateral Continuity, Cross-Cutting Relationships, and Inclusion.
Steno's Principles of Relative-Age Dating
Hutton's Principle of Uniformitarianism
Saltzer's Principles of Classroom Management
Archimede's Principles of Buoyancy
Bernouli's Principles of Buoyancy
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