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Earth's history and geologic time

This 8th-grade classroom material helps students practice understanding Earth's history and geologic time through question types like multiple-choice, ordering events, and fill-in-the-blank. It focuses on fossils, rock layers, relative dating, and the geologic time scale.

By Edform · Science · Grade 8 · Published Oct 15, 2026 · New

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Questions

  1. Which type of rock is most likely to contain fossils?
  2. Which of the following are used to determine the relative age of rock layers?
  3. Put these events in the correct order from oldest to youngest as they would appear in undisturbed rock layers.
  4. Fill in the blank with the correct term.
  5. Choose the correct word to complete the sentence.
  6. Match each term to its correct description.
  7. Sort the following into 'Evidence for Plate Tectonics' and 'Not Evidence for Plate Tectonics'.
  8. Mark each statement as True or False.
  9. What is the name for a fossil that is used to define and identify geologic periods?
  10. If a rock layer is known to be 250 million years old and another above it is 200 million years old, how many million years apart are the two layers?

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