Vocabulary
Short Questions
Types of Fossils
Fossil Preservation
Random
100
The sediment that fills the space left by a dead organism's body
Cast
100
Which of the following cannot become a fossil? a) the footprint of an animal b) an impression of a leaf c) the breath of an animal d) an animal bone
C
100
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!! Animals that lived in the oceans long ago. Horseshoe crabs living today are related to the animal.
Trilobite
100
What is the most common means by which a dead plant and animal can be preserved is by creating a ____________ and ___________.
What is a cast and mold?
100
This is what typically happens when a plant or animal dies?
What is decomposition?
200
Any naturally preserved evidence of life
fossil
200
Which might you expect to find a fossil of a woolly mammoths? a) in rock b) in a glacier c) in tree sap d) in a piece of wood
B
200
The sum total of all fossils on the earth
What is the fossil record?
200
when the carbonate residue is gone and only the impression of the fossil remains, it is called an ______________.
What is an impression?
200
This is required for petrification to occur.
What are minerals?
300
Energy-rich resource formed from the buried remains of once living organisms
fossil fuel
300
About how old is Earth? a) 100 years old b) 100 million years old c) approximately 6000 years d) 4.6 billion years old
C
300
Fossils are usually found in this type of rock
What is sedimentary rock?
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!How does coal form?
Swamp plants died and sank to the bottom. The decayed matter was buried under sediment. Bacteria, plants, fungi and protists decompose the decaying matter. Most of the moisture and oxygen were pressed out by pressure and turns into coal.
300
Mammoths are close relatives of which type of animal?
Elephants
400
The conversion of organic material into stone
What is petrification?
400
A fossil of a sea animal was found near the top of a mountain. What does this tell you about the history of the mountain?
The mountain was once under the ocean once.
400
According to Catastrophism the different layers of rock represent different times in the earth's history (True or False)
True
400
Which country has the largest coal reserve?
USA
400
These two events in represent the earliest history of the earth
What are Creation week and Noah's flood?
500
A sticky, liquid substance that usually hardens when exposed to air
What is resin?
500
A term applied to a species of plant or animal that once was living but now is not
What is Extinct?
500
It is the most common type of fossil in the world.
Fish
500
A type of resin that hardens and preserves organisms and prevents the decomposition of the organism.
What is amber?
500
The process by which sediments and rock fragments are carried away by wind and rain
What is erosion?
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