| 1) Given an undisturbed sequence of sedimentary rocks, the top most rock is older than the bottom most rock. | 
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| 2) "Walther's Law" suggests | 
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| 3) What term best describes the principle of uniformitarianism? | 
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| 4) Which of the following is not a major principle of geology. | 
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| 5) Which of the following depositional environments best display the principles of superposition? | 
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| 6) Based on the figure above, Rock unit D is younger than rock unit E | 
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| 7) If rock unit B is dated at 1.6 Million years old and rock unit D is dated at 2.3 Million years old. Fossils in C are: | 
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| 8) Which geologic principle is most important in relative dating of rocks? | 
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| 9) Which of the following organisms would most likely produce an environment-independent fossil. | 
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| 10) Microfossils are common in rocks from the Hadean. | 
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| 11) Most fossils are found in: | 
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| 12) The Burgess Shale is an important rock unit because: | 
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| 13) The picture above shows what type of fossil: | 
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| 14) Transport of dead organisms down a river to the ocean would most likely to produce: | 
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| 15) Which of the following generally does not bias the fossil record | 
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| 16) The oldest earth fossils are: | 
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| 17) In 1667, Nicolas Steno suggested that: | 
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| 18) Carbon-14 is useful for providing absolute dates on dinosaur bones. | 
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| 19) The geologic time scale was developed using stratigraphic principles. | 
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| 20) The oldest rocks on the earth have been dated at: | 
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| 21) The Miocene is an epoch of the Teriary Period of the Cenozoic. | 
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| 22) The 4.6 billion year date for the origin of the earth is based on: | 
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| 23) Lord Kelvin estimated the age of the earth at 20-40 Million years old. This estimate was: | 
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| 24) Estimates of the age of the earth based on sedimentation rates and salt concentrations in the oceans were: | 
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| 25) Which of the following is not a Period in the Paleozoic | 
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| 26) It is possible to measure the absolute date of a rock because: | 
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| 27) Phyla Annelida will most likey produce the following fossil: | 
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| 28) Phyla Arthopoda is first recognized in rocks from the: | 
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| 29) Which of the following is a member of Phyla Chordata: | 
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| 30) Cnidarians are considered "true" animals because they show a tissue level of organization. | 
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| 31) The coelom was an important evolutionary development in animals because: | 
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| 32) Members of the Kingdom Plantia are the only organisms that photosynthesize. | 
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| 33) Members of the Kingdom Protista do not produce fossils. | 
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| 34) Bacteria are considered animals. | 
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| 35) Sessile, filter-feeding organisms often have free swimming larvae because: | 
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| 36) Competition between different species should: | 
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| 37) Competition between members of the same species is intense because: | 
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| 38) Evolution is driven to build more complex species | 
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| 39) Species take an active role in deciding how they evolve. | 
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| 40) Mutations to regulatory genes are more likely to cause major evolutionary changes than mutations to structural genes. | 
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| 41) Which of the following is probably an example of neoteny | 
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| 42) Which of the following is a primary control on the rate of evolution | 
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| 43) Complexity increases through time because: | 
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| 44) Natural selection acts on genetic variations within a individual | 
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| 45) Plate Tectonics can influence the diversity of life by: | 
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| 46) The Paleozoic-Mesozoic boundary records a large mass extinction. | 
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| 47) Cyclic changes in sea level may result from cyclic changes in sea floor spreading rates | 
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| 48) Extinctions result from: | 
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| 49) Which of the following is not considered a Milakovitch cycle: | 
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| 50) Dinosaurs became extinct at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary. | 
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