New Mexico NM-ASR Science Grade 8 Practice Questions - New Mexico Assessment Of Science Readiness - Science, Grade 8 Exam

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Scientists find fossil shells of a marine organism in a rock layer high above current sea level. Which is the best explanation for how the fossils got there?

The area was once covered by an ocean, and geologic processes later lifted the rocks above sea level The shells were carried there by wind The organisms climbed the mountain while alive Someone placed the shells on the mountain recently

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The area was once covered by an ocean, and geologic processes later lifted the rocks above sea level

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