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8th Grade NC Science Earth History Review

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Scientists find dinosaur fossils in the bottom rock layers of a cliff and mammal fossils in the middle rock layer of the cliff. Which could best be concluded from this evidence?

Dinosaurs and mammals lived at the same time.

Dinosaurs were eaten by the mammals.

Dinosaurs lived on Earth before the mammals

Dinosaurs ate plants.

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What do earthquakes tell scientists about the history of the planet?

The continents of Earth are continually moving

Earth’s climate is constantly changing

The oceans are much deeper today than millions years ago.

Dinosaurs became extinct about 65 million years ago.

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Which best describes how ice cores are important to the study of geologic history?

They contain evidence showing changes in the atmosphere

They show unconformities, which signal changes in deposition

They hold index fossils, which date the different ice cores

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Which allows scientists to investigate what Earth’s climate was like over the past 740,000 years?

volcanic deposits

fossild

faults

ice cores

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