The Earth Through Time Quizizz

How many millions of years ago were the earliest known reptiles?

• 300

• 200

• 100

• 50

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How many millions of years ago were the earliest known flowering plants?

• 300

• 275

• 125

• 50

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Sedimentary rocks are made from:

• sediments being compressed

• magma being compressed

• Sediments being broken apart

• Magma being broken apart

In reference to rocks the ______ layer is at the bottom and the ________ layer is at the top.

• youngest, oldest

• oldest, youngest

• thinner, thicker

• thicker, thinner

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________ are the traces or remains of an organism that lived long ago.

• Faults

• Shells

• Sediments

• Fossils

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________ and _________ tell us a lot about Earth's past environments and organisms.

• Faults, magma

• Rocks, faults

• Rocks, fossils

• Faults, plants

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What is Relative Age?

• The amount of tine it takes to die.

• The age once it reaches it's half life.

• An estimated age.

• How old something is compared to how old something else is.

What is Relative Dating?

• Any method of determining whether something is older or younger than something else.

• How Geologists categorize plants

• How long something has been a fossil.

Organizing fossils all of Earth's known fossils from oldest to youngest shows life on Earth has __________________________.

• Recorded fossils

• stayed the same

• changed over time.

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What is it called when some rock layers are missing, forming gaps in the record?

• Subcommunities

• Unconformities

• Relative Dating

• Relative Age

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