Earth Science Topic #13 Review Game
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Base your answer on the cross section
below shows rock layers A, B, C, D, and
fault F. The rock layers have not been
overturned.
Which sequence places the rock layers and fault in order
from oldest to youngest?
a. D C B A F
b. A B C D F
c. F D C B A
d. F A B C D
Base your answer on The diagram below
represents a sample of a radioactive isotope.
Which diagram best represents the percentage of this radioactive
isotope sample that will remain after 2 half-lives?
A
B
C
D
Thin layers of volcanic ash act as excellent time markers in the
correlation of bedrock because volcanic ash
a. is easily eroded and lasts only a short time on Earth’s surface
b. stays in the atmosphere for millions of years
c. is deposited over millions of years
d. falls to Earth over a large area in a short period of time
Base your answer on the chart below, which shows the changing climatic
conditions that led to alternating glacial and interglacial periods.
The chart represents climactic
conditions that occurred mostly
during which geological time period?
a. Triassic Period
b. Ordovician Period
c. Quaternary Period
d. Cretaceous Period
Pleistocene deposits of gravel are found lying directly on
Precambrian bedrock. The interface between the gravel
and the bedrock indicates
a. a zone of contact metamorphism
b. an area of volcanic activity that resulted in extruded
gravels
c. a period of continuous deposition
d. a major time gap in the geologic record
Base your answer on The
primitive lobe-finned fish shown
below is thought to be an
ancestor of early amphibians.
This evolutionary development from fish to amphibian is
believed to have occurred during the
a. Triassic Period
b. Devonian Period
c. Tertiary Period
d. Permian Period
Base your answer on The cross section below shows
four rock units, A, B, C, and D.
Which rock unit is youngest
in age?
a. A
b. B
c. C
d. D
When did the intrusion of the Palisades
Sill occur?
a. before the Appalachian Orogeny
b. during the late Triassic Period
c. during the Paleozoic Era
d. after the extinction of dinosaurs and
ammonites
Base your answer on Base your answers to questions 26 and 27 on
the diagram below, which shows specific events in the history of Earth
from the beginning of the universe to the present.
During which geologic era did
life first appear on land?
a. Middle Archean
b. Paleozoic
c. Middle Proterozoic
d. Cenozoic
According to the fossil record, which
sequence correctly represents the evolution of
life on Earth?
a. fish amphibians mammals soft-bodied
organisms
b. fish soft-bodied organisms mammals
amphibians
c. soft-bodied organisms amphibians fish
mammals
d. soft-bodied organisms fish amphibians
mammals
Which rock is most likely the oldest?
a. conglomerate containing the tusk of a
mastodont
b. shale containing trilobite fossils
c. sandstone containing fossils of flowering
plants
d. siltstone containing dinosaur footprints
Which geologic event occurred in New York State at approximately
the same time that eurypterids were becoming extinct?
a. the opening of the Atlantic Ocean
b. the uplift of the Appalachian Mountains
c. the formation of the Catskill Delta
d. the intrusion of the Palisades Sill
Base your answer on the
geologic cross section
below. The large coneshaped mountain on
Earth’s surface is a
volcano. Letters A, B, and
C represent certain rocks.
Which statement correctly describes the relative ages of rocks A and C and gives the
best supporting evidence from the cross section?
a. A is younger than C, because A is a lower sedimentary rock layer.
b. A is younger than C, because the intrusion of A metamorphosed part of rock layer C.
c. A is older than C, because A has older index fossils.
d. A is older than C, because the intrusion of A cuts across rock layer C.
Samples of plant pollen are preserved in sediment deposited by the
last glacial ice sheet. Which radioactive isotope is best for
determining the age of the samples?
a. potassium-40
b. carbon-14
c. uranium-238
d. rubidium-87
Which radioactive element would be used to
determine the age of late Pleistocene
mastodont bones found in western
Connecticut?
a. carbon-14
b. potassium-40
c. uranium-238
d. rubidium-87
Base your answer on The diagrams below show the sequence of
events that formed sedimentary rock layers A, B. C, and D.
This sequence of events best illustrates the
a. formation of a buried erosional surface (unconformity)
b. movement of rock layers along a fault between layers B and D
c. overturning of rock layers
d. metamorphism of sandstone (layer B) into quartzite
Base your answer on The cross sections below show the
surface bedrock in two different locations 20 miles apart. Rock
layers are labeled 1, 2, 3, 4, and X. The rock layers have not
been overturned.
Rock layer X at location B is most likely
the same relative as which rock layer at
location A?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
Base your answer on What process most directly caused
the formation of the feature shown by line AB in the
geologic cross section below?
a.
b.
c.
d.
erosion
faulting
igneous intrusion
folding
Base your answer on The
diagram below which
represents a cross section of
a portion of the Earth's crust
where no overturning of the
rock layers has occurred.
Two rock layers are labeled
A and B.
Which statement describes the most likely
sequence of events?
a. Deposition occurred before folding or faulting.
b. Faulting occurred before folding of the rock
layers.
c. Faulting occurred before the formation of rock
layer A.
d. Folding occurred before the formation of rock
layer B.
The largest meteorite impact crater in North America
formed approximately 1,850 million years ago, which was
during the
a. Middle Archean Era
b. Early Proterozoic Era
c. Early Jurassic Period
d. Late Cretaceous Period
Base your answer
on the cross section
below. Rock units
are labeled 1
through 8. The line
between A and A'
indicates an
unconformity.
Which event occurred sometime after the formation of the unconformity?
a. formation of rock unit 3
b. tilting of rock unit 5
c. deposition of the sediments that formed rock unit 8
d. intrusion of rock unit 7
Base your answer on
The cross sections
below which
represent three
widely separated
outcrops of exposed
bedrock. Letters A, B,
C and D represent
fossils found in the
rock layers.
Which fossil appears to have the best
characteristics of an index fossil?
a. A
b. B
c. C
d. D
Base your answer on The diagram
below which shows an index fossil
found in surface bedrock in some
parts of New York State.
In which New York State landscape region is
this gastropod fossil most likely found in the
surface bedrock?
a. Tug Hill Plateau
b. Allegheny Plateau
c. Adirondack Mountains
d. Newark Lowlands
Base your answer on
The table which shows
the fossils found in
three layers of
sedimentary bedrock.
The relative age of the rock layers from
oldest to youngest is
a. A →B →C
b. A →C →B
c. B →A →C
d. C →A →B
Unconformities (buried erosional surfaces) provide
evidence that
a. many life-forms have become extinct
b. faults are older than the rock in which they are found
c. part of the geologic record has been destroyed
d. metamorphic rocks have formed from sedimentary
rocks
How old is a fossil that has radioactively
decayed through 4 half-lives of carbon14?
a. 5,700 years
b. 17,100 years
c. 22,800 years
d. 28,500 years
Base your answer on The diagram below shows a
process thought to have produced Earth’s early
atmosphere.
Which major
component is
shown as gas X?
a. helium
b. ozone
c. carbon dioxide
d. hydrogen
Base your answer on The diagrams below represent the rock layers
and fossils found at four widely separated rock outcrops.
Which fossil appears to be the best index fossil?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Most of the surface bedrock found in New
York State was formed during which era?
a. Precambrian
b. Paleozoic
c. Mesozoic
d. Cenozoic
Base your answer
on the cross
sections below,
which represent two
bedrock outcrops 15
kilometers apart.
The rock layers
have been
numbered for
identification and
some contain the
index fossil remains
shown.
Both organisms that formed the fossils found in rock
layers 3 and 4
a. lived during the same period of geologic time
b. lived in polar regions
c. are members of the same group of organisms
d. are still alive today