Ch. 11 Earth Science Test

Most fossils are

• dinosaurs

• missing links

• marine (ocean) organisms

• vertebrates

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Petrified wood forms by a process called

• casting

• compression

• carbon printing

• replacement

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Which of the following substances commonly contains fossils?

• amber

• magma

• liquid water

• all of the above

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What remarkable discovery came from the examination of a thigh bone of a T-Rex fossil in 2005?

• DNA

• prehistoric bacteria

• soft tissue

• stone arrowhead

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

What is the name for the study of fossils?

• archaeology

• paleology

• paleontology

• petrology

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Who developed the system used today to classify organisms?

• Charles Darwin

• Carolus Linnaeus

• Charles Lyell

• James Hutton

When the population of a species begins to shrink due to having more deaths than births in a generation, it is possibly headed toward

• extinction

• fossilization

• succession

• superposition

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NGSS.HS-LS4-5

Fossil Fuels do not include

• coal

• hydrothermal fluids

• natural gas

• petroleum

Some forms of coal have been properly classified as

• metamorphic rock

• minerals

• sedimentary rock

Nearly half of the electrical power plants in the United States use this fuel

• abiogenic oil

• coal

• natural gas