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The diagram below represents a stack of rock layers. Examine the diagram, and answer the question that follows.


What do these layers and their fossils suggest about Earth's history?
A.
Lifeforms on Earth have been the same over time.
B.
No lifeforms were present when these layers formed.
C.
Only one kind of lifeform lived where these layers formed.
D.
There have been changes in Earth's lifeforms over time.

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D. There have been changes in Earth's lifeforms over time.

Reason: Different rock layers (older at the bottom, younger at the top) contain different fossils, showing that the types of organisms living in that location changed through time. This rules out A (lifeforms have not been the same), B (there were lifeforms present), and C (more than one kind lived there over time).