Apologia General Science Module 8

What are fossils that are assumed to represent a certain period in earth's past?

• geological column

• index fossils

• paraconformity

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What do we call a theoretical picture in which layers of rock from around the world are mashed together into a single, unbroken record of earth's past?

• geological column

• paraconformity

• index fossil

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

A paraconformity is an unconformity for which no evidence exists, true or false?

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Whish viewpoint (uniformitarianism or catastrophism) requires the existence of paraconformities?

• Neither

• Both

• Uniformitarianism

• Catastrophism

Which viewpoint has a problem with the following statement "there are too many fossils in the fossil record"?

• Uniformitarianism

• Catastrophism

The data from the Mt. St Helen's eruption indicates that the major geological formations we see today can be formed quickly as a result of catastrophes, true or false?

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Which viewpoint has a hard time explaining fossils such as the Tyrannosaurus Rex bone that contain soft tissue?

• uniformitarianism

• catastrophism

Which viewpoint has a hard time explaining index fossils that were once thought extinct but now we know are not?

• uniformitarianism

• catastrophism

Which viewpoint would have a hard time offering a good explanation of the existence of unconformities between rock layers laid down by a flood?

• uniformitarianism

• catastrophism

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Is the geological column a real thing?

• yes

• no

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4