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Question bank: Unit 4 — Dating Planet Earth

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1.
The law of superposition states that in undisturbed sedimentary layers:
the oldest layers are at the top
the oldest layers are at the bottom
all layers are the same age
the layers are random
2.
An index fossil is a fossil of an organism that:
lived for a long time in one small area
lived for a short time and was widely distributed
is still alive
is found in igneous rocks only
3.
The same index fossil found in two distant rock layers means the layers:
have the same relative age
are of different ages
are made of the same rock
are metamorphic
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