The 'MR Chapter 15 Earth History Test' assesses understanding of geological theories like uniformitarianism and catastrophism, and concepts such as the geologic column and law of superposition. It evaluates how these theories and methods contribute to dating and analyzing Earth's geological features.
Catastrophism
Uniformitarianism
Geologic column
Radiometric dating
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False
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Radioactive decay
Radiometric dating
Absolute dating
Relative dating
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The top
The bottom
In the middle
Half way between the top and the middle
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Overturned
Tilting
Folding
Intrusion
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False
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There was a land bridge
The continents were once connected in Pangea
The animal swam
The exact same animal lived on seperate continents at the same time
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Migratory birds took them there when they flew north for the winter
The arctic once had a tropical climate
The seeds were left by an explorer
The seeds floated to the arctic in the ocean
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Erosion
Deposition
Unconformity
Isotope
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The fossil was carried by glaciers.
The fossil was moved by the oceans.
The organism was capable of living in both areas.
The rock layers where the fossil was found were made of metamorphic rock.
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They would be the same age.
The European rock would be older.
The South American rock would be older.
Fossils tell nothing about rock ages.
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Hot jungle
Arctic sea
Hot desert
Warm swamp
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The fossil is older than the sandstone.
The fossil is younger than the sandstone.
The sandstone is between 200-500 million years old.
The sandstone is less than 200 million years old.
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Types of rocks that were preserved in the rocks
Erosion moved some of the rock
Details about the rock record
Different kinds of rocks that are present in the column
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Radiometric dating
Absolute dating
Relative dating
Radiometric decay
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False
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Half life
Carbon 12
Isotope
Eon
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Carbon 14
Rubidium-Strotonium
Carbon 12
Potassium-Argon
Uranium-Lead
Silcon-Mercury
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Isotope
Half life
Eon
Absolute dating
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Amber
Fossils in ice cores
Fossils in asphault
Fossils in rock layers
Petrification
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Uranium-lead because uranium is easily detectable
Rubidum-Strotonium because Strotonium is a stable isotope
Potassium-Argon because it has a long half life
Carbon 14 because it has a short half life
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The approximate height of an organism
How the organism traveled
The color of the organism
The relative age of the organism
The absolute age of the organism
The relative age of the rock layers around the fossil
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Trace fossil
Amber
Index fossil
Ice core
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There are organisms frozen everywhere
There are plants frozen everywhere
There are gases frozen in there like carbon dioxide that show global climate changes
You can see air quality
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1.2 billion years
2.4 billion years
4.6 billion years
6.8 billion years
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Epoch, era, eon, period
Period, eon, era, epoch
Eon, era, period, epoch
Era, period, eon, epoch
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The age of the mammals
The age of the reptiles
The age of visible life
The age of the prehistoric life
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Paleozoic
Proterizoic
Cenozoic
Mesozoic
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Hadean
Archaean
Phanerozoic
Proterozoic
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Paleozoic
Mesozoic
Cenozoic
Phanerozoic
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Quaternary
Mesozoic
Cenozoic
Paleozoic
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Archaean
Cenozoic
Mesozoic
Paleozoic
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An asteroid hit Earth causing global climate change
The water didn't circulate as it should have
There were genetic mutations
It hasn't happened yet
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An asteroid hit Earth causing global climate change
The water didn't circulate as it should have
Over population
A crossing over of terrestrial and aquatic food chains
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Phanerozoic
Quaternary
Cenozoic
Holocene
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Phanerozoic
Holocene
Cenozoic
Quaternary
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