8th Grade Geological Evolution Test
- 1.What does a geologist study?
- A.
Geology- rocks, and the shape of the earth
- B.
Fossils, Ancient organisms
- C.
Unconformities
- D.
Continental Drift
- 2.What does a paleontologist study?
- A.
Geology- rocks, and the shape of the earth
- B.
Fossils, Ancient organisms
- C.
Chemical Weathering
- D.
Mechanical Weathering
- 3.What are the four types of mountains?
- A.
Folded
- B.
Upwarped
- C.
Fault Block
- D.
Volcanic
- E.
Chemical
- F.
Mechanical
- 4.What is Relative age?
- A.
It is when the continents brok up, and moved.
- B.
Comparing fossils or rocks to the layers around it.
- C.
The forces that shaped the earth are still shaping it today.
- D.
Breaking down rock through acid rain, and plants on the side of the rock.
- 5.What does the Law of Superposition have to do with relative age?
- A.
The Same forces that shape the earth are still shaping it today.
- B.
Rock layers are the oldest on the bottom, and youngest on the top.
- C.
Faults slide together to cause earthquakes.
- D.
Rockss break down through friction, wind,or water freezing and thawing.
- 6.Whatt is the difference in an nonconformity and a disconformity?
- A.
Nothing they are the same.
- B.
A nonconformity is an up lift, a disconformity is an intrusion.
- C.
Radioactive Decay
- D.
Continental Drift.
- 7.What is Mechanical Weathering?
- A.
Rocks break down through friction from erosion, wind, or water freezing and thawing.
- B.
Breaking down rock through acid rain and plants growing on rocks.
- C.
Comparing fossils or rocks to layers around it.
- D.
The mess up of the sequence of sedimentary layers.
- 8.What is Chemical Weathering?
- A.
Rocks break down through friction, wind, or water freezing and thawing.
- B.
Breaking down rocks through acid rain and plants growng on the rock.
- C.
The forces that shape the earth are still shaping it today.
- D.
Radioactive Decay
- 9.How are faults connected to earthquakes?
- A.
Nothing they are the same.
- B.
Faults slide together to cause earthquakes.
- C.
It moves because of the lava under the techtonic plates.
- D.
Fossils
- 10.What is the process in which an isotope breaks down into a normal atom of an element or another element?
- A.
Geology
- B.
Raioactive Decay
- C.
Half-life
- D.
Continental Drift
- 11.How can you use radioactive decay of an istope to date a fossil or a rock?
- A.
There is not a long enough half-life.
- B.
It can determin the Half-life.
- C.
It is when continents broke up and moved.
- D.
Continental Drift
- 12.What is uniformitarianism?
- A.
The same forces that shaped the earth are still shaping it today.
- B.
The mess up of the sequence of sedimentary layers.
- C.
Rock layers are the oldest on the bottom, and youngest on top.
- D.
Comparing fossils or rocks to layers around it.
- 13.Why can Carbon- 14 dating not be used for sedimentary rocks?
- A.
It Can
- B.
There is not a long enough half-life.
- C.
Faults slide together
- D.
Continental Drift
- 14.How did Pangaea break up- describe the process that drove the break up?
- A.
Continental Drift
- B.
It moved because of the lava under the techtonic plates.
- C.
Geology
- D.
Radioactive Decay
- 15.What is a Continental Drift?
- A.
It is when the continents broke up and moved.
- B.
It messes up the sequence of sedimentary layers.
- C.
The lava under the techtonic plates.
- D.
When faults slide together to cause earthquakes.
- 16.How do techtonic plates move?
- A.
They don't
- B.
The lava under the techtonic plates makes the techtonic plates move.
- C.
Continental drift
- D.
Isotope
- 17.What is the difference in absolute and radiometric dating?
- A.
Nothing they are the same.
- B.
Rocks break down through friction from erosion, wind, or water freezing and thawing.
- C.
Absolute Dating can determine the half-life.
- D.
Radiometric dating can mess up the sequence of sedimentary layers.
- 18.Why do unconformities cause geologist and paleontologist trouble?
- A.
They Mess up the sequence of sedimentary rock layers.
- B.
They don't
- C.
It can determin the half-life.
- D.
Faults slide toghether to cause earthquakes.
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