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PAGE 32 – COPY & ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS:1. What is the relative age of a rock
or fossil?2. How is relative age measured?3. What does the geologic time scale
show us?4. How do we determine when new
eras and periods begin?5. How do fossils show us that the
environments and climates of Earth have changed?
PALEONTOLOGY TESTReview Game
QUESTION 1
What is the death of every member of a species called?
ANSWER 1
Extinction
QUESTION 2
What process compares one rock layer with another in sequence to determine age?
ANSWER 2
Relative dating
QUESTION 3
Which era do we live in?
ANSWER 3
Cenozoic Era
QUESTION 4
What principle says that the geologic processes that occur today also occurred in the past?
ANSWER 4
Uniformitarianism
QUESTION 5
What is a missing layer of rock called?
ANSWER 5
Uncomformity
QUESTION 6
What is the study of past life using fossils?
ANSWER 6
Paleontology
QUESTION 7
What principle says that younger rock is on top of older rock?
ANSWER 7
superposition
QUESTION 8
At what rate does geologic change generally occur?
ANSWER 8
Slowly
QUESTION 9
How do we know that the environmental conditions on the Earth have changed?
ANSWER 9
By looking at the fossil record
QUESTION 10
What is the Principle of Original Horizontality?
ANSWER 10
Sediments and sedimentary rock are formed in horizontal layers
QUESTION 11
What is the geologic column?
ANSWER 11
All of the Earth’s layers of rocks together that shows us the Earth’s history
QUESTION 12
If you find the fossil of a fish on the top of the mountain, what can you learn about the history of the mountain?
ANSWER 12
It was once underwater
QUESTION 13
What era is the Age of Reptiles?
ANSWER 13
Mesozoic Era
QUESTION 14
What type of rocks usually contain fossils?
ANSWER 14
Sedimentary
QUESTION 15
How many years ago did dinosaurs become extinct?
ANSWER 15
About 65 million years ago
QUESTION 16
Which layer is the oldest?
ANSWER 16
Layer V
QUESTION 17
James is younger than George. This is an example of what?
ANSWER 17
Relative age
QUESTION 18
What is the difference between an extinction and a mass extinction?
ANSWER 18
An extinction is just one species, and a mass extinction is many species at once.
QUESTION 19
Name a geologic change that would qualify as an example of catastrophism.
ANSWER 19
Volcanic eruption, earthquake, tsunami
QUESTION 20
Name a geologic change that would qualify as uniformitarianism.
ANSWER 20
Mountain building, rock cycle, formation of volcanoes, faults