Analyzing the Rock and Fossil Records

Analyzing the Rock and Fossil Records

8th Grade

15 Qs

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Analyzing the Rock and Fossil Records

Analyzing the Rock and Fossil Records

Assessment

Quiz

Science

8th Grade

Hard

NGSS
MS-ESS1-4, MS-LS4-1, HS-PS1-8

+2

Standards-aligned

Created by

Lisa Thompson

FREE Resource

15 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

This principal states that, if magma breaks into a rock, the pieces of rock in the magma are older than the magma itself.

Original Horizontality

Inclusions

Lateral Continuity

Cross-Cutting Relationships

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

Canyons are caused by which principle of relative-age dating? Hint: This also states that ground is placed in all directions.

Superposition

Cross-Cutting Relationships

Lateral Continuity

Inclusions

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

_____________ the principle that in undisturbed rock layers, the oldest rocks are on the bottom.

Superposition is

Horizontal position is

Churchill Downs is

lateral position is

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

______________ is a surface where rock has eroded away, producing a break, or gap, in the rock record.

Correlation

Unconformities

nonconformities

unsurfaceformities

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

Rocks or sediment layers that are used as a marker to correlate rock formations in different regions where layers are exposed are called

key beds

volcanic eruption

meteorite strike

volcanic marker

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Matching rocks and fossils from separate locations is called

matching

coordinate

evidence location

correlation

7.

FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

________ fossils represent species that existed on Earth for a short length of time, were abundant, and inhabited many locations. Man's remains are also included.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

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