Science EOG Review

Which supports the theory that the same mountains were once at the bottom of the ocean?

• There are underwater mountains on the ocean floors today.

• Freshwater rivers flow to the ocean

• Fossils of marine organisms are found on top of some mountains

• Moth mountains and ocean floors have similar minerals

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Which is the most accurate method scientists use to predict the age of the earth?

• Radioactive Dating

• Relative Dating

• Comparing the ages of fossils

• investigating core samples

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Which is the reason for scientists to study ice cores obtained in ice caps?

• To study fossils

• To stydy the age of dinosaurs

• To study past climates

• To study the solar system

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Which best describes uniformitarianism?

• The time it takes for erosion to occur has changed since Earh was first formed.

• The movement of the continents no longer occurs because of ocean currents.

• The processes that shape the earth continue as they hace since Earth was first formed

• The formation of rock layers has slowed because of climate change.

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What evidence supports that life on earth has continually evolved?

• Evidence from tree rings

• Evidence from rock layers, fossils, and ice cores

• Evidence gathered from melting glaciers

• Evidence that climate has changed over time.

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Which would most likely increase the genetic variation in a population of an organism?

• An increase in diseases

• A decrease in diseases

• An increase in mutations

• A decrease in mutations

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Which is the best evidence for evolution?

• New rock layers containing fossils ofd simple organisms

• New rock layers containing fossils unlike existing organisms

• Old rock layers containing fossils unike existing organisms

• Old rock layers containing fossils od complex organisms

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Which demonstrates how genetic variation may result from a change in an environment where an animal lives?

• A slamon swims faster in cold water.

• A snake increases body temperature when laying in the sun.

• A beetle stands out to predators because its color is different than its surroundings.

• An arctic fox changes it color over time because it migrates to a different climate.

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If a bat, an alligator, and a bird evolved from a common ancestor, what can be concluded?

• They have similar anatomical structures

• They live in the same part of the world

• They are in the same biological classification

• They are able to survive changes in their environments

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Recent changes in species can be found in the upper layers of rock. This privides a link between whch two scientific ideas?

• Cell theory and the theory of evolution

• The periodic nature of the elements and cell theory

• the theory of evolution and the law of superposition

• the law of superposition and the periodic nature of the elements

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