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8.E.2: Understand The History Of Earth And Its Life Forms Based On Evidence Of Change Recorded In The Fossil Records And Landforms. 8.L.4: Understand The Evolution Of Organisms Based On Evidence, Theories, And Processes That Impact Earth Over Time. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

Which of the following would be an adaptation for survival in a desert?
a) An animal being active during the middle of the day.
b) A bird having dark feathers that absorb sunlight as heat.
c) A plant having thick stems to store water.
d) A plant having large leaves to gather sunlight.

What is most likely to happen if an environment changes and a species does not have variations that are helpful in the new environmental conditions?
a) Members of the species will try to change the environment.
b) Members of the species will develop new adaptations.
c) A new species will form the existing species.
d) The species will become extinct.

A scientist wants to find the absolute age or actual age of a rock. Which of these is the scientist most likely to use?
a) The law of superposition.
b) Radioactive dating
c) The geologic time scale
d) Ice cores

Which level of classification are organisms able to breed with one another, and produce fertile offspring?
a) Kingdom
b) Phylum
c) genus
d) species

Which of the following list the division of the geologic time scale from longest to shortest?
a) Epoch, Eon, Era, Period
b) Period, Epoch, Eon, Era
c) Eon, Era, Period, Epoch
d) Era, Eon, Period, Epoch

Which of these catastrophes do scientist think led to the mass extinction of the dinosaurs?
a) Volcanic eruption
b) Asteroid Impact
c) Ice Age
d) Competition

Which is the process that moves sediments from one location to another?
a) Volcanic Eruption
b) Erosion
c) Deposition
d) Weathering

Which of the following best describes an adaptation?
a) A trait that is passed from parent to its offspring.
b) Any trait of an organism
c) Any change in a gene or a chromosome
d) A trait that helps an organism survive.

Which of the following provides evidence that Earth is about 4.6 billion years old?
a) Carbon-14 found in rocks.
b) Uranium found in meteorites and moon rocks.
c) Relative dating of fossils.
d) Seafloor spreading

The statement that in undisturbed sedimentary rock layers, older rocks lie under younger rock layers is the_____
a) Theory of plate tectonics.
b) Geologic time scale.
c) Law of superposition.
d) Process of natural selection.

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