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What type of dating indicates a specific age of a rock by using methods such as carbon dating or radioactive decay?

• Relative Dating

• Absolute Dating

Which parts of an organism are more likely to fossilize?

• the soft parts - skin, muscle

• the hard parts - bones, shells, stems

• all parts can become fossilized easily because the organism becomes buried by sediments

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Why is the fossil record incomplete?

• fossils get eroded away over time

• most organisms never became fossils

• scavengers and decomposers eat them too quickly

• all of the above

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

The geologic time scale is a record of....

• the history of fossils only

• the history of rocks

• the history of rock layers and fossils

• geologist notes

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Which rock formed first?

• Rock A

• Rock B

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

What is this an example of?

• natural selection

• artificial selection

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

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When a farmer breeds only his or her best livestock, the process involved is.......

• natural selection

• artificial variation

• artificial selection

• survival of the fittest

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NGSS.MS-LS4-5

According to Darwin's theory of natural selection, individuals that tend to survive.......

• got characteristics from their parent through use and disuse

• have the least number of offspring

• have characteristics that breeders value

• have variations best suited to their environment

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Extinction

• Artifical Selection

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Which statement is true comparing natural selection and artificial selection?

• In natural selection, traits benefit humans and in artificial selection, the traits benefit the species

• In natural selection, traits benefit the species and in artificial selection, the traits benefit humans

• In natural and artificial selection, the process takes hundreds of years to occur

• In natural and artificial selection, nature determines what traits will be passed down to offspring.