5.3-The Record of the Red Rocks;5.4- A Recent Burial: Evidence..

Animals and plants that disappear abruptly from the fossil record, yet are still alive today, are known as index fossils.

• True

• False- Living

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

When continuous strata are missing one or more layers, the gap is called an unconformity.​ (a)  

• True
• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

A lobe-finned fish fossil thought to be the ancestor of the first amphibians was the Knightia.

• True

• False-coelacanth

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

A technique used by evolutionists to assign "absolute" ages to rocks and fossils is ​ radiometric dating.​ (a)  

• True
• False

The historic event that probably formed most of the fossils in the earth was the Ice Age.​ (a)  

• False- Flood (Genesis)
• True

Match the following:

• index fossils

• What is the logic error in which the "proof" of an idea depends on the assumption that the idea is true?

• circular reasoning

• What method do evolutionists use to date organic materials like preserved bones, skin, or hair?

• half-life

• What is the general term for fossils that evolutionists use to identify the supposed ages of rock layers?

• stasis

• What term describes the amount of time needed for half of a parent element to decay into its daughter element?

• carbon-14 dating

• What term describes an organism showing no change between its appearance in the fossil record and at the present day?

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2