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Grade 8 Historical Geology
Which describes the relative age of something?
  1. its age in comparison to the age of other things
  2. the age of something in years
  3. cannot be determined because the rock layers are always disturbed
  4. isn't really useful when studying geology
Grade 8 Historical Geology
The longest section of Earth's history was                  .
  1. Cretaceous period
  2. Precambrian time
  3. Paleozoic Era
  4. Cenozoic Era
Grade 8 Historical Geology
What time frame is known as "The Age of the Dinosaurs"?
  1. Jurassic Period
  2. Tertiary Period
  3. Cambrian Period
  4. Precambrian Period
Grade 8 Historical Geology
What is an example of an index fossil?
  1. Humans
  2. Trilobites
  3. T-Rex
  4. Jellyfish
Grade 8 Historical Geology
Which of these is NOT typically considered a type of fossil?
  1. Petrified
  2. Casts and molds
  3. Carbon Print
  4. Mummy
Grade 8 Historical Geology
Wegener's theory of continental drift was not accepted immediately by other scientists because
  1. the fossil evidence was unreliable.
  2. Wegener could not describe how the continents separated.
  3. Wegener only had evidence from the southern continents.
  4. the rock sequences were incomplete.
Grade 8 Historical Geology
Place the eras in the correct order from earliest to latest.
  1. Paleozoic Era, Mesozoic Era, Precambrian Era, Cenozoic Era
  2. Mesozoic era, Cenozoic Era, Paleozoic Era, Precambrian Era
  3. Precambrian Era, Paleozoic Era, Mesozoic Era, Cenozoic Era
  4. Mesozoic Era, Cenozoic Era, Precambrian Era, Paleozoic Era
Grade 8 Historical Geology
Gaps in rock sequences are called                  .
  1. superposition
  2. index fossils
  3. uniformitarianism
  4. unconformities
Grade 8 Historical Geology
Radiometric dating plays an important role in                 age.
  1. estimating
  2. relative
  3. absolute
Grade 8 Historical Geology
Which is the preserved evidence of ACTIVITY of an organism?
  1. cast and molds
  2. mineralization
  3. carbonization
  4. trace fossils
Grade 8 Historical Geology
                  have been found in rock, amber, and ice.
  1. Fossils
  2. Unconformities
  3. Uniformitarianism
  4. Tephra
Grade 8 Historical Geology
At this point in geological history, Pangaea breaks up and North and South America moves toward present day location.
  1. Jurassic Period
  2. Triassic Period
  3. Tertiary Period
  4. Cretaceous
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