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Geologic Time Review – 2016-17 (some have more than 1 answer)

1. The idea of “survival of the fittest” is critical to:

A. LamarckismB. Natural Selection C. Uniformitarianism D. Original remains

2. T/F “The present is the key to the past” is part of the concept of uniformitarianism.

For the next few questions, use the diagram below:

3. What is the second oldest layer shown above? (use the letters labeled on the diagram) C, because B is the oldest, then C, D, etc. If you look at the fault, you can see that D is above C (and C is above B)

4. What is represented by “10?”

A. a intrusion B.a tilt C. a fold D. a fault

5. T/F Intrusion A is younger than layer X. True, since it cuts through X, it came after X.

6. Which of these is most important to us being able to decide the age of an item in layer x by using relative dating?

A. Law of superposition B. Concept of original remains C. Radioactive isotope decay

Stop Using the Picture

7. T/F MA means billions of years. GA

8. T/F The fauna from an era are the plants from that time period.Flora

9. “The forces that changed the earth yesterday still change it today” is known as:

A. original horizontality B. geologic age C. uniformitarianism D. the law of superposition

10. Which of the following lists is in the correct order?

A. Eon , Period, Era, EpochC. Eon, Era, Epoch, Period

B. Era, Eon, Period, EpochD. Eon, Era, Period, Epoch

11. T/F Ice cores from Antarctica can be tested to determine what the atmosphere was like up to approximately 100,000 years ago.

12. Counting from and including the middle of the tree, my tree has 22 light rings and 22 dark rings, plus a layer of cambium and then a layer of bark around the outside. How many years old is it most likely to be?

A. 44 B. 46 C. 22 D. 23 E. 24

13. Which one of the following choices has two major ways that scientists used to create divisions of geologic time?

A. Organisms & characteristics of the earth's crust

B. Minerals in the soil & water levels of the oceans and seas

C. Position of the earth in relation to the sun and moon

D. Extinctions and spontaneous generation of life

14. I find dolomite between two layers of rock. One layer was made 204 MYA. The other one was made 208 MYA. What kind of dating have I used to date the dolomite if I use that info to say that it is between 204 and 208 Million years old?

A. Absolute dating B. Relative dating C. geologic dating D. none of the above

15. Which of the following are modern humans (us)?

A. Homo sapiensB. Homo erectusC. Homo habilusD. None of these

16. Which time period gave us tons of oil and coal?

A. CretaceousB. HadeanC. CarboniferousD. Holocene

17. If Mr. Calkins has a son who is a superhuman and can read minds, which is not something that any other people in the Calkins family can do, what kind of evolution must have occurred?

A. gradual b. punctuated (has a sudden change, so it’s punctuated – like the end of a sentence) c. spontaneous d. quick

18. What are "fossils of organisms that were common, lived in many areas and existed only during a certain span of time?"

A. geologic fossil B. dating fossil C. relative fossils D. index fossils

19. What kind of organisms flourished during the Carboniferous Period?

A. Plants B. Land animals C. Marine animals D. Single-celled organisms

20. Who saw evolution as being quick, possibly occurring during one lifetime?

A. Wegener B. Lamarck – could inherit changes made to your parents’ bodies while they lived)

C. Darwin D. Kelvin

21. What is the Permian Extinction most likely to have been caused by?

A. Impact event B. Volcanism in Siberia C. Drop in sea level D. Lack of Oxygen

22. T/F The hind leg bones of a whale are used as an indication of evolution and are called vestigial organs.

23. T/F The K-T boundary is related to the end of the cretaceous time period, when the dinosaurs died.

24. T/F If I have a mold of somebody’s head, it would look like a 3-D version of their head that would fit on their body. (This describes a cast. A mold is what you use to make a casting of something like a head)

26. T/F If I guess what is going on in a layer that is between two layers of sediment that I know all about, I am interpolating. If you go beyond the data (before or after), it’s extrapolate/extrapolating

MATCHING: Use the list on the right to answer these questions.

27. Which item happened first on the list?(B)

28. Which item happened first – E or AB? (E)

29. Which item happened most recently?(AC)

30. Which item happened first – A or AE?(AE)

31. Which item happened first – AB or AD? (AD)

32. Which item happened first – C or AB?(C)

A. Plentiful oxygen in the atmosphere

B. First Life

C. Largest mass extinction (great dying)

D. Snowball Earth

E.Breakup of Pangaea

AB. Dinosaur extinction

AC. “End” of latest ice age

AD.First mammals

AE. Stromatolites