What does the fossil record refer to. Please don’t say random things please this is important. Options A recording of fossil names.
An encyclopedia of fossil photos.
The fossils in a layer being studied.
All fossils in the rock layers on Earth.

I think B or C

Explanation:

Fossil record, history of life as documented by fossils, the remains or imprints of organisms from earlier geological periods preserved in sedimentary rock

the compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the united states congress in september 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the mexican–american war