
Crash Course: Earth Science

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History
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8th Grade
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Hard
Rebecca Hibshman
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10 questions
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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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