Middle school level fossil record quiz covering:
- Earth’s history
- The fossil record
- Rock strata
- Very basics of geologic time
- Law of superposition (although this specific term is not used)
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This quiz includes 10 multiple-choice questions and covers an OVERVIEW of these topics – NOT the nitty-gritty detail of era names or specific organisms that lived in each era. Students also do NOT need to know exactly how fossils form or be able to recognize specific fossils. The focus of this quiz is that Earth’s life forms and climate have changed over time and that this can be seen in the fossil record.
TWO VERSIONS! Two similar versions of the assessment are provided. They have identical questions, but different answer choices. Wandering eyes will see a quiz that looks like their own, but has different answers.
Teacher Notes:
- This is the same Earth’s History quiz as found in the Earth Science section of my store. If you have that, you already own this!
- Supports NGSS MS-LS4-1 and ESS1-4.
- INCLUDES ANSWER KEY.
- Please note that this fossil record quiz is not editable.
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Related Standards:
- NGSS MS-ESS1-4: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence from rock strata for how the geologic time scale is used to organize Earth’s 4.6-billion-year-old history.
- NGSS MS-LS4-1: Analyze and interpret data for patterns in the fossil record that document the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of life forms throughout the history of life on Earth under the assumption that natural laws operate today as in the past.
