Unit 4 Big 20 Vocabulary Snow Day

An event in Earth’s history where 50% or more of the biosphere disappears at once, marking the transition from one geologic time period to the next, is known as:

• The Greenhouse Effect

• A Mass Extinction

• Continental Drift

• A Meteor Impact

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Which method of relative age dating uses the locations and depth of preserved plant and animal remains to estimate the age of a rock?

• Radiometric Dating

• Stratigraphy

• Fossil Record

• Stratigraphy

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What term describes the process by which organisms gradually change in response to changes in their DNA or environment?

• Natural Selection

• Genetic Drift

• Adaptation

• Mutation

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

What term refers to a period in Earth's climate when temperatures are cold and much of the planet is covered in ice?

• Glacial

• Global Warming

• Greenhouse Period

• Interglacial Period

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What method is used to determine the specific numerical age of a rock or fossil based on its radioactivity?

• Relative Dating

• Stratigraphy

• Absolute Age

• Fossil Dating

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

What is the name of the geologic time period from 542 MYA to 252 MYA, known as the "age of invertebrates and fish," and meaning "old life"?

• Mesozoic Era

• Paleozoic Era

• Cenozoic Era

• Precambrian Era

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

What term refers to the preserved remains of an organism that are isolated to only one period of geologic time?

• Fossils

• Index Fossils

• Trace Fossils

• Mummified Remains

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What is the name of the geologic time period from 66 MYA to the present, known as the "age of mammals," and meaning "recent life"?

• Mesozoic Era

• Paleozoic Era

• Cenozoic Era

• Precambrian Era

What is the method of absolute age dating that measures the ratio of radioactive parent isotopes to stable daughter isotopes?

• Dendrochronology

• Radiometric Dating

• Stratigraphy

• Carbon Dating

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

What is the Earth system that forms and maintains Earth's solid land through plate tectonics and the rock cycle?

• Atmosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Lithosphere

• Geosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3