Analyzing the Rock and Fossil Records

Which rock layer in this picture is the newest?

• The top layer

• the bottom layer

• they are all the same

• none

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

How do scientists find the relative age of a rock or fossil?

• By measuring what the rock is made of

• By breaking the rock to see inside.

• By comparing rocks in different layers

• By looking where the rock came from

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

What is rock dating?

• Rock dating is finding out what elements are in the rock

• Rock dating is finding out what kind of rock a rock is

• Rock dating is finding how old a rock is

• going out with a rock

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

Which of these rocks can we easily find the relative age of

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Newer fossils are made from_____organisms than older fossils

• simpler

• more complex

• i dont know

• less complex

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

In what order do the layers of a rock form?

• Top to the bottom

• All layers of a rock form at the same time

• Bottom to the top

• Middle to the top and bottom

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

How do scientists find the absolute age of a rock

• By comparing rocks in different layers

• By measuring what the rock is made of

• By looking where the rock came from

• i dont know

When we search close to the Earth's surface in a rock, we find____fossils is

• older

• smarter

• newer

• i have no idea

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What feature of a rock can be compared to find the relative age

• age

• layers

• middle layers

• bottom layers

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4