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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
geologic map
C
topographic 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
superposition
C
absolute dating
D
uniformitarianism
3) Which term sans matching up rock layers in different places
A
correlation
B
absolute dating
C
uniformitarianism
D
superposition
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
index fossils
B
carbon films
C
body fossils
D
trace fossils
5) Which can be used to find the absolute age of a fossil?
A
radioisotope
B
igneous intrusion
C
angular unconformity
D
index fossil
6) Which is most closely related to the first life forms on Earth?
A
Archaepteryx
B
stromatolite
C
green algae (cyanobacteria)
D
trilobite
7) Which might explain extinctions?
A
asteroid
B
glaciation
C
overexploitation
D
competition
8) Which time period do we live in?
A
Paleozoic
B
Cambrian
C
Cenozoic
D
Precambrian
9) What is the one giant landmass that was considered a supercontinent?
A
Parliament
B
Trilobite
C
Pangea
D
Precambrian
10) What information do fossils give geologists?
A
species
B
change over time
C
equations
D
sediment
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