History of Earth Closed Notes Quiz

Rock formations can be described in terms of their ______ and ______ age

• New/Age

• Extinction/Absolute

• Relative/Absolute

• New/Relative

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

The extinction of a large number of species within a relatively short period of time is what?

• Mass Extinction

• Critically Endangered Species

• Endangered Species

• Small Extinction

Geologists created the ______________, a timeline of geologic events and life forms in Earth's History

• Geologic Vastness

• Geologic Time Frame

• Geologic Time Scale

• Geologic Name Scale

Another name for the position of rock layers, is called the Law of ________

• Superposition

• Extinction

• Fossils

• Order

In horizontal sedimentary rock layers, we find the ______ layers at the bottom and the _____ layers at the top

• Oldest/Oldest

• Youngest/Youngest

• Youngest/Oldest

• Oldest/Youngest

Faults and intrusions are always ______ than the rock they cut through

• Older

• The same

• Younger

• Biggest

he preserved remains of living things is called what?

• Mummies

• Zombies

• Fossils

• Oil

A series of fossils put in order of oldest to youngest is called what?

• Fossil Record

• Mass Extinction

• Geologic Time Scale

• Scrapbook

Forces inside earth bend rock layers so they no longer lay horizontal is called what?

• Unconformity

• Folding

• Fossil

• Fossil Record

A gap in the geologic record that shows where rock layers have been lost due to erosion is called what?

• Fossil

• Fossil Record

• Folding

• Unconformity