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Test Description: Chapter 2, 3, 4
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Which type of map is best used to find the location of a layer of coal at Earth's surface?
A
weather map
B
topographic map
C
geologic map
D
road map
2) Which principle states that the oldest rock layer is found at the borrow in an undisturbed stack of rock layers?
A
half life
B
absolute dating
C
uniformitarianism
D
superposition
3) Which term sans matching up rock layers in different places
A
absolute dating
B
superposition
C
correlation
D
uniformitarianism
4) Which are the remains of species that existed on Earth for relatively short periods of time, were abundant, and were wide spread geographically?
A
body fossils
B
index fossils
C
trace fossils
D
carbon films
5) Which can be used to find the absolute age of a fossil?
A
radioisotope
B
igneous intrusion
C
index fossil
D
angular unconformity
6) Which is most closely related to the first life forms on Earth?
A
stromatolite
B
trilobite
C
Archaepteryx
D
green algae (cyanobacteria)
7) Which might explain extinctions?
A
competition
B
glaciation
C
asteroid
D
overexploitation
8) Which time period do we live in?
A
Cenozoic
B
Paleozoic
C
Precambrian
D
Cambrian
9) What is the one giant landmass that was considered a supercontinent?
A
Precambrian
B
Trilobite
C
Parliament
D
Pangea
10) What information do fossils give geologists?
A
change over time
B
sediment
C
species
D
equations
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