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Eighth Grade (Grade 8) Historical Geology Questions

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Grade 8 Historical Geology
Grade 8 Historical Geology
Grade 8 Historical Geology
Grade 8 Historical Geology
What is the type of fossil that leaves a carbon skeleton?
  1. Cast and molds
  2. Mineralization
  3. Carbonization
  4. Trace Fossils
Grade 8 Historical Geology
What type of fossil has been found on the continent of Antarctica?
  1. Glossopteris
  2. Pangaea
  3. Planaria
  4. All of the above
Grade 8 Historical Geology
Grade 8 Historical Geology
Which of these is not an example of a fossil trap?
  1. Amber
  2. Ice
  3. Asphalt trap
  4. Carbon prints
Grade 8 Historical Geology
Which best describes the relative age of something?
  1. its age in comparison to the age of other things
  2. the age, in years of rock and other objects
  3. the age cannot be determined because the rock layers are disturbed
  4. it doesn't matter what the age of an object is
Grade 8 Historical Geology
Earth's atmosphere during the first billion years of its existence was made up mainly of which two gases?
  1. oxygen and nitrogen
  2. carbon dioxide and ammonia
  3. carbon dioxide and nitrogen
  4. oxygen and sulfur dioxide
Grade 8 Historical Geology
Grade 8 Historical Geology
Grade 8 Historical Geology
About how many years passed after the dinosaurs went extinct before people appear on Earth?
  1. 55 million years
  2. 65 million years
  3. 75 million years
  4. none of the above
Grade 8 Historical Geology
What type of organism was mesosaurus?
  1. a large dinosaur
  2. a small bird-like creature
  3. an aquatic reptile
  4. a small mammal with large teeth
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