Semester 1 - Unit 3 Study Guide

Impressions of leaves are from _____.

• animals

• plants

• plants and animals

• neither plants nor animals

Trace fossils can be from _____.

• animals

• plants

• plants and animals

• neither plants nor animals

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

If rock layers have been compressed, they have been through _____.

• deposition

• faulting

• folding

• erosion

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

If rock layers have cracks in them, they have been through _____.

• deposition

• faulting

• folding

• erosion

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

How can we look at rock layers to piece together a geologic time period?

• All layers have the same age.

• The layers have different ages with the youngest layers on top.

• The layers have different ages with the oldest layers on top.

• The layers have different ages with the youngest layers on bottom.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

What causes the youngest rock layers to be on top of other ones?

• sedimentation

• faulting

• folding

• erosion

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The relative age of two rocks can be found by looking at _____.

• vertical position

• the presence of unconformities

• radioactive dating of each layer

• relative age cannot be determined

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The absolute age of two rocks can be found by _____.

• vertical position

• the presence of unconformities

• radioactive dating of each layer

• comparing fossils in the layers

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Which two are body fossils?

• footprint of a stone-age individual

• a worm trail

• ancient shark vertebra

• wooly mammoth tusk

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Which two are trace fossils?

• dinosaur footprint

• shrimp burrow

• dinosaur egg

• shark tooth

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1