Spin like a Tornado
What are tectonic plates constantly doing?
Shifting very slowly
How can we tell which mountains are older or younger?
Older = Smaller
Younger = Taller
Which of the following would not count as a fossil?
A stone cast of a dinosaur
A stone cast of a nest
A stone cast of ancient pottery
A stone cast of footprints
A stone cast of an emerald
A stone cast of ancient pottery & a stone cast of an emerald
What has to occur for an animal to be turned into a fossil?
It must be covered in sediment relatively quickly before decomposition occurs.
What does the word fossil mean in Latin?
"Dug Up"
What was the name of the supposed Super Continent?
Pangea
What type of rock are fossils found in?
Sedimentary
What are Fossils?
Preserved evidence of life from the past
What are the major theories as to what wiped out the dinosaurs?
Meteor
Flood
Volcanoes
Climate change
True or False: All fossils are of extinct animals
False
What is uniformitarianism?
The observable ways & processes of how the earth changes
How do scientists discover fossils?
Weathering & erosion expose them from underground
What is the Fossil Record?
A record of all the fossils discovered in Chronological Order
What is Relative Dating?
When we determine which things are older or younger based on their relationship to other things.
Getting "in the ballpark" of how old something is.
What does the fossil record show us about life on earth as time goes on?
It becomes more complicated.
What is continental drift theory?
That the continents gradually drifted apart to where they are today
Why is it important that there is coal in Anartica?
It is evidence that there was once trees & other plants there
Give at least 3 examples of how a fossil can be created
Rock, ice, amber, tar
What is Absolute Dating?
Determining the specific age of something.
What type of scientist studies fossils?
Paleontologists
List at least 3 pieces of evidence that the world once had one super continent.
•Geographic fit – The world is like puzzle pieces
•Fossils match across oceans
•Rock types and structures match across oceans
•Ancient glacial features
List at least 3 examples of what shifting tectonic plates cause.
Volcanoes, mountain formation, earthquakes, weathering
What does it mean to become "Petrified"?
When an organism's tissues are replaced by minerals.
If the world was still one super continent, which mountain chain in America would fit perfectly into the the Atlas mountain chain in Africa?
Appalachian Mountains
What is a trace fossil?
Evidence of animal activity like footprints or nests