Test: Geologic Time/Rock Record

Test: Geologic Time/Rock Record

6th - 8th Grade

25 Qs

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Test: Geologic Time/Rock Record

Test: Geologic Time/Rock Record

Assessment

Quiz

Created by

Kurt Predmore

Science

6th - 8th Grade

4 plays

Easy

NGSS
MS-ESS1-4, HS-PS1-8, MS-LS4-1

+3

25 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

If Earth's history is put on a scale of 1 yard (1 in = 100 million yrs), human civilization would have been around for
less than one inch.
1 yard.
10 inches.
24 inches.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the breakdown of unstable isotopes into stable isotopes of other elements called?
uncomformities
relative dating
Carbon-14
radioactive decay

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How far back in time can geologists study the history of the earth?
1.6 billion years
46 million years
4.6 billion years
160 billion years

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the largest division of time?
eon
epoch
era
period

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What type of dating indicates a specific age of a rock by using methods such as carbon dating or Uranium 235?
Relative Dating
Absolute Dating

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What type of dating indicates an approximate age of a fossil in relationship to other layers of rock in an area?
relative dating
absolute Dating
radiometric dating

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the idea that geologic processes are occurring now are the same as those that occurred in the past?
unconformities
uniformitarianism
epicism
catastrophism

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

8.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is a fossil that is used to establish the age of a rock layer because the fossil is distinct, abundant, and widespread and the species that formed that fossil existed for only a short span of geologic time?
index fossil
trace fossil
fossil
varve

9.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is a fossilized mark that formed in sedimentary rock by the movement of an animal on or within soft sediment called?
index fossil
fossil
trace fossil
permineralization

10.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The time required for half of a sample of a radioactive isotope to break down by radioactive decay to form a daughter isotope is called what?
uniformitarianism
relative age
half-life
radioactive dating

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

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