Earth History Vocab
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8th Grade
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Lillian Cole
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Means "Ancient Life"; The era after the Pre-Cambrian Era, known for the great expansion of life, especially trilobites, insects, fish and amphibians.
Paleozoic
Cenozoic
Pre-Cambrian
Mesozoic
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS1-4
NGSS.MS-LS4-1
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Rocks formed from many types of rocks that are under extreme heat and pressure, changing the rocks into this new type of rock.
Sedimentary Rock
Metamorphic Rock
Igneous Rock
Index Fossil
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A record of the life forms and geological events in Earth's history.
Absolute Dating
Half-Life
Geological Time Scale
Relative Dating
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS1-4
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The time it takes for one half of a sample of radioactive sample to decay.
Geological Time Scale
Half-life
Relative Dating
Radiometric Dating
Tags
NGSS.HS-PS1-8
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Rock formed by the cooling and solidifying of molten materials.
Pangaea
Sedimentary Rock
Metamorphic Rock
Igneous Rock
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS2-1
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A widely distributed fossil, of narrow range in time, used especially in determining the age of related formations.
Metamorphic Rock
Igneous Rock
Index Fossil
Pangaea
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The science of determining the order of past events by comparison, without necessarily determining the actual age.
Absolute Dating
Radiometric Dating
Half-life
Relative Dating
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
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