Passed this out today in class, but just in case!

Chapter 7-4, 8-1, 8-2 Test

Study Guide

Test is on Monday 5/20 for A block, Tuesday 5/21 for B block

1)      What is classification?

2)      What are the levels of classification in order from largest to smallest?

3)      What is taxonomy?

4)      What is binomial nomenclature?  Who invented it?

5)      What are the three domains and how are organisms identified in each group?

6)      What are the three types of Rock and how are they different from each other?

7)      What are 5 things that can make a rock turn into another type? (Text pg 270)

8)      What are relative and absolute age?

9)      Explain the Law of Superposition.

10)   Know your Earth Visual Terms.

11)   How do scientists use fossils to tell how old fossils are?

12)   How can faults, intrusions, extrusions, unconformities help scientists determine the relative age of rocks?