Earth History Vocab

Earth History Vocab

8th Grade

20 Qs

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Earth History Vocab

Earth History Vocab

Assessment

Quiz

Science

8th Grade

Medium

NGSS
MS-LS4-1, MS-ESS2-3, MS-ESS1-4

+7

Standards-aligned

Created by

Lillian Cole

Used 80+ times

FREE Resource

20 questions

Show all answers

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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