Middle School Earth and Space Science Flashcards: Fossils Show Relative Age

Study Fossils Show Relative Age in Middle School Earth and Space Science with focused flashcards that help you recognize the idea, recall the key rule, and apply it in practice-style prompts.

QUESTION

Which option best indicates a layer is younger: it contains trilobites or it contains dinosaur bones?

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ANSWER

It contains dinosaur bones. Dinosaurs lived in the Mesozoic Era, after trilobites went extinct in the Paleozoic.

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Trilobite and ammonite fossils are in the same rock layer. What is true?
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