Fossils Multiple Choice Test

Which would most likely be considered the oldest?

How is relative age found?

How is absolute age measured?

What forms from sediment and deposits horizontally?

Which is not a way rocks are altered/changed?

This is when rock layers are eroded or when sediment isn't deposited for a long period of time.

Fossils known to have lived in a particular geologic age that can be used to date rock layer

States that the top rock layer is the youngest and bottom layer is the youngest

This era is known as the ocean age as many ocean animals came to be during this era.

Which geologic time period was the longest?

What is one thing that we know that has occurred over time?

If fossils are found in different layers, what can we infer from this?

If two different rock layers contain the same index fossils what can we infer?

This era is known as the dinosaur era.

In regards to how old Earth is, when did humans evolve?

This type of fossil forms when a mold is filled with sediment and hardens into the shape of the organism.

This type of fossil is an organism dies, and is buried by layers of dirt. Over time, the animal or plant decays and leaves a imprint.

When minerals soak into the remains and turn them into rocks.

When all or parts of an organism are prevented from decaying by being trapped in ice, sap, or something else.

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