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Grade 6 Historical Geology
What is a fossil?
  1. a layer of Earth
  2. a chain of mountains
  3. preserved organism
  4. a type of heat transfer
Grade 7 Historical Geology
Radiometric dating is used to determine
  1. the relative age of a fossil.
  2. the amount of radio waves in a fossil.
  3. the absolute age of a fossil.
  4. none of the above
Grade 7 Historical Geology
What is the best definition of a fossil?
  1. any trace of an ancient plant
  2. any trace of an ancient animal
  3. any trace of an ancient human
  4. any trace of an ancient organism
Grade 4 Historical Geology
Suppose you observe several layers of rock that have been exposed by road work. The oldest rock is probably                         .
  1. in the top layer
  2. in the middle layer
  3. in the bottom layer
  4. just below the top layer
Grade 8 Historical Geology
During the first billion years of Earth's history,                          .
  1. there was life everywhere
  2. trilobites evolved
  3. vertebrates evolved
  4. there was no life
Grade 7 Historical Geology
As a tool, the law of superposition enables a geologist to
  1. determine the absolute age of a rock layer.
  2. always identify the bottom layer of sediment as being deposited first and thus as the youngest.
  3. measure the flow of lava from a volcanic vent.
  4. establish relative age of a sedimentary layer.
Grade 9 Historical Geology
What is the approximate age of Earth?
  1. 3.5 billion years
  2. 4.5 billion years
  3. 3.26 million years
  4. 1 million years
Grade 7 Historical Geology
The first fossils of                      are found in rocks from the Paleozoic Era.
  1. invertebrate animals
  2. fishes and reptiles
  3. amphibians
  4. insects
  5. all of the above
Grade 7 Historical Geology
Earth is about                 years old.
  1. 4.5 million
  2. 4.5 billion
  3. 3.5 billion
  4. 3.5 million
Grade 8 Historical Geology
                   is the release of nuclear particles and energy from unstable atomic nuclei.
  1. Superposition
  2. Indexing
  3. Radioactive decay
  4. Radiometric dating
Grade 8 Historical Geology

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Calculating the absolute age of a rock by measuring the amounts of parent and daughter materials in a rock and knowing the half-life of the parent material is called                   .
  1. radiometric dating
  2. radioactive decay
  3. half-life
  4. uniformitarianism
Grade 7 Historical Geology
How can fossils be dated?
  1. comparing their positions in rock layers
  2. measuring radioactive elements
  3. knowing the age of the rock layer they are in
  4. all of the above
Grade 4 Historical Geology
Which of the following could NOT preserve a whole plant or animal as a fossil?
  1. ice
  2. ocean water
  3. tar
  4. tree sap
Grade 3 Historical Geology
A paleontologist is a scientist who studies fossils.
  1. True
  2. False
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