S3S6/7

Which rock layer most likely contains fossils of the most recently evolved organisms?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What is the best reason that fossil #4 is NOT a good index fossil?

• It is not widespread

• it is not short-lived (in numerous layers)

• It is in half of the outcrops

To be considered an index fossil, it had to have lived for a relatively short period of time.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The Law of Superposition helps scientists to determine what?

• The absolute age of rock layers

• The age of fossils

• The relative age of rock layers

• the super powers of rocks

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

List the steps of the scientific method

d

e

f

c

b

a

Ask a question

Analyze results

Conduct experiment

Form a hypothesis

Communicate results

Draw conclusions

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

Which fossil makes the best index fossil?

• Fossil 1

• Fossil 2

• Fossil 3

• None follow all of the rules

Does the picture represent relative or absolute dating?

• relative

• absolute

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Index fossils CAN tell us the age of a rock layer.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What you see, or the physical appearance.

• Genotype

• Phenotype

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

T - tall and t = short
In the punnett square below, what belongs in the missing square

• tt

• Tt

• Bb

• TT

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2