Paleobiosphere Unit 3 test

Which is are the reasons that Earth is suitable for carbon-based life?

• Temperatures to maintain liquid water

• All of these

• Atmosphere that shields the life forms from radiation

• Terrestrial surface

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The ________________ includes all life on Earth and the abiotic (nonliving) factors

necessary for organisms to breathe, obtain/make food, find shelter, and reproduce.

• Atmosphere

• Biosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Geosphere

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which choice is not correct: The earth's geologic, hydrologic, and atmospheric processes

have contributed to

• the extinction of species.

• the emergence of new species.

• evolution.

• organisms not changing over time

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Which is not a division in the Geologic Time Scale?

• Era

• Eon

• Epoch

• Decade

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

What two sources are used by scientists to develop a geologic history?

• Rock layers and dinosaurs

• Dinosaurs and fossils

• Rock Layers and fossils

• Human remains

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

When a scientist studies fossils shells, bones, and plant fragments are examples of

• direct evidence

• indirect evidence

• altered evidence

• unaltered evidence

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The study of fossils allow scientists to learn all of the following except

• ancient environmental conditions.

• how organisms have changed over time.

• patterns or cycles that predict future phenomena.

• That no organism has ever gone extinct

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What is this diagram called?

• Time Capsule

• Fossil Record

• Geologic Time Scale

• Dinosaur Layers

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

How long ago did the Jurassic period begin?

• 145.5 million years ago

• 199.6 million years ago

• 145.5 billion years ago

• 199.6 billion years ago

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The term Cenozoic is the name of a

• Era

• Period

• Eon

• Epoch

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4