GEOLOGIC HISTORY OF NYS REF.TABLE P8-9

You are attempting to identify this index fossil. Which page of your Earth Science Reference Tables would you use?

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• 13

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

During which time period was this particular species alive and most abundant?

• Cambrian
• Ordovician
• Silurian
• Permian

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Index fossils are useful to geologists for correlating rocks because each species is widely distributed and became extinct after a _______________ geologic existence 

• long
• short

 During which geologic period did plants and animals first appear in land environments?

• Cambrian

• Silurian

• Ordovician

• Devonian

What is the best classification of this fossil, and during which geologic time period did the organism that produced this fossil exist?

• Classification: Trilobite

  Geologic time period: Permian

• Classifi cation: Coral

  Geologic time period: Permia

• Classification: Trilobite

  Geologic time period: Ordovician

• Classification: Coral

  Geologic time period: Ordovician

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Identify the geologic period of the bedrock in which this specific New York State index fossil can be found.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Letters A through E represent rock units. Letter F represents a geologic feature. Some layers contain index fossils. Which geologic principle could be used to support the inference that rock layers A through D experienced crustal movement?

• contact metamorphism

• crosscutting relationships

• superposition

• original horizontality

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The photograph shows a New York State index fossil. This index fossil would be classified as a

• gastropod

• brachiopod

• coral

• nautiloid

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The age of which index fossil could be determined by using carbon-14?

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Which New York State index fossil is classified as a coral?

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1