Unit 3 Lesson 8 - Reconstructing Earth's History Test

Unit 3 Lesson 8 - Reconstructing Earth's History Test

6th Grade

25 Qs

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Unit 3 Lesson 8 - Reconstructing Earth's History Test

Unit 3 Lesson 8 - Reconstructing Earth's History Test

Assessment

Quiz

Science

6th Grade

Hard

NGSS
MS-ESS1-4

Standards-aligned

Created by

william norris

FREE Resource

25 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 3 pts

How old is the Earth?

hundreds of years

thousands of years

millions of years

billions of years

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 3 pts

When fossils appear in one rock layer but not in the next, what likely happened?

mass extinction

the organisms moved

the organisms evolved very quickly

the environment was no longer prone to creating fossils

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 3 pts

Mass extinctions mark the end of one __________ and the beginning of another.

cycle

day

geologic time span

decade

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 3 pts

Which is the shortest unit of time?

eon

era

period

epoch

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 3 pts

What era do we live in?

Cenozoic

Mesozoic

Paleozoic

Precambrian time

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 3 pts

Why is there so much information about the Phanerozoic eon, which is only 10% of Earth's history?

Weathering was much worse before this eon.

There aren’t many rocks left from previous eons.

The Earth didn’t have a crust before the Phanerozoic.

Most of the Earth’s crust was formed during this epoch.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 3 pts

The solar system formed according to the _________.

big bang theory

nebular hypothesis

planetary formation model

stellar evolution theory

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