Earth History Unit Review

Convergent boundaries form which of these geological features?

Ice cores tell us about the __________ of the Earth.

Which one of these is NOT an unconformity?

Faults form at ________ boundaries.

What is the fossil record?

The energy and heat that affects the surface of the earth starts from the __________.

Rock layers that have eroded or tilted are referred to as...

Convergent boundaries destroy crust at ______________.

A magma intrusion is younger than....

The granite intrusion is younger than...

A dinosaur bone found in Z would most likely also be found in...

Carbon-14 is used for which type of dating?

A fossil found in a layer of rock is __________ the rock layer.

What can we learn from igneous rocks?

Which layers are the same age?

Igneous rocks that form UNDER the surface of the earth come from...

A commonly found fossil of an organism that lived in a relatively short time is called...

Divergent boundaries form which of these geological features?

What can we learn from sedimentary rocks?

The geologic time scale organizes the earth's history by...

Fossils are found in which rock types?

The trilobite fossil is younger than...

The fossil record is used to organize the _____________.

What is the oldest layer?

If you found the same rock layer in two different sites, you would infer that they are...

The magma intrusion S is younger than...

The Law of Superposition says that the oldest layer of rock is the _________ layer.

At a divergent boundary, the newest crust is going to be located...

What is the youngest layer?

Footprints and burrows are examples of which type of fossil?

Which is the youngest layer here?