8.E.2.1 to 8.E.2.2

What do the bubbles in ice cores represent?

• Tiny samples of earth's atmosphere when the ice formed.

• Types of plants that lived in an area.

• The annual growth or shrinkage of a glacier.

• More bubbles are indicative of increased precipitation.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

A geologist found 600 year old fossils below a particular rock layer. Which will the geologists MOST LIKELY find above the rock layer?

• 450 year old fossil

• 600 year old fossil

• 650 year old fossil

• 1000 year old fossil

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The Law of Superposition states:

• Oldest is on the top layer, youngest is on the bottom

• Oldest in the middle layers, youngest is on the bottom

• Oldest is on the bottom layer, youngest is on the top

• All of the rock layers are the same age

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

What type of fossil can be described as sand or mud hardened in the shape of an organism?

• Mold

• Cast

• Petrified

• Perserved

What type of fossil can be described as when mud or sand harden to stone, leaving a footprint, trail or burrow of an organism left behind?

• Cast

• Mold

• Trace

• Carbonized

Scientists who study fossils are

• fossilologist

• paleontologist

• reptologist

• dinosaurologist

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

States that younger rocks lie above older rocks if the layers have not been disturbed

• Law of crosscutting

• Law of superposition

• Relative Dating

• Unconformity

What type of rock would I find fossils?

• Igneous Rock

• Sedimentary Rock

• Metamorphic Rock

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

All of earth's continents were connected 335 million years ago. It was known as:

• Mesozoic

• Paleontologist

• Pangea

• Aegnap

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which of the following is the oldest?

• Layer L

• Intrusion D

• Intrusion H

• Layer E

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4