Unit 3 History of Earth Vocabulary Test

The gap in the geologic record that shows where rock layers have been lost due to erosion ____________

• Unconformity

• Mass Extinction

• Absolute Age

• Radioactive Dating

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Event during which many species become extinct during a relatively short period of time ____________

• Law of Superposition

• Relative Age

• Era

• Mass Extinction

The age of a rock given as the number of years since the rock formed _____________

• Fossil

• Era

• Absolute Age

• Radioactive Decay

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The process of determining the age of an object using the half - life of one or more radioactive isotopes _____________

• Radioactive Dating

• Reptile

• Mammal

• Invertebrate

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

The geologic principle that states that in horizontal layers of sedimentary rock, each layer is older than the layer above it and younger than the layer below it _____________

• Amphibian

• Vertebrate

• Law of Superposition

• Period

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The age of a rock compared to the age of other rocks _____________

• Radioactive Decay

• Relative Age

• Era

• Geologic Time Scale

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

One of the three long units of geologic time between the Precambrian and the present time _____________

• Unconformity

• Mass Extinction

• Era

• Geologic Time Scale

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

A record of the geologic events and life forms in Earth's history. ____________

• Fossil

• Reptile

• Mammal

• Invertebrate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

A vertebrate whose body temperature is determined by the temperature of its environment, and that lives its early life in water and its adult life on land _____________

• Amphibian

• Vertebrate

• Period

• Fossil

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

An animal with a backbone _____________

• Reptile

• Mammal

• Invertebrate

• Radioactive Decay