Crash Course: Earth Science

Crash Course: Earth Science

8th Grade

10 Qs

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Crash Course: Earth Science

Crash Course: Earth Science

Assessment

Interactive Video

History

8th Grade

Hard

Created by

Rebecca Hibshman

FREE Resource

10 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the primary method used in the 17th century to estimate Earth's age?

Radiometric dating

Fossil analysis

Textual evidence from religious texts

Observation of rock layers

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What did early geologists use to try to determine the age of the Earth before the advent of radiometric dating?

Layers of rock and their sequence

Comparative anatomy of living organisms

Astrological charts

Computer simulations

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who conducted experiments to estimate the Earth's age based on its cooling rate?

James Ussher

Georges Cuvier

Charles Lyell

Comte de Buffon

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What concept did the 18th and 19th-century geologists begin to accept more widely?

Human history is not linked to geological changes

Earth has a deep, extensive pre-human history

Earth's history is only a few thousand years

The Earth is flat

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which theory proposed that Earth's history was shaped by large-scale catastrophes?

Steady-state theory

Evolutionary theory

Catastrophism

Uniformitarianism

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What did Georges Cuvier focus on to support his theory of catastrophism?

Small fossils

Big bones like mastodons

Rock layers

Volcanic activity

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the main focus of Georges Cuvier's research in paleontology?

Extinction events and their evidence in fossil records

The relationship between different species of plants

The impact of human activity on rock formations

The development of mountains over geological time

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