Fossils Form/Aging
Interpreting the Evidence
Unanswered Questions
What do Fossils Reveal?
Species Relationships & Formations
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What is required for fossils to form?
What are specific environmental conditions?
100
What is a homologous structure.
What do scientist call similar structures and organisms?
100
Why are some things under water and some things still on land.
What is adaptaions?
100
What is a copy of the shape of the organism that made the mold.
What is a cast?
100
Ture or false: A branching tree is a diagram that shows how scientist think that different groups of organisms are related.
What is true.
200
When do perserved remains form?
What is when entire organisms become incased in materials like ice.
200
What are fossils, patterns of early development, and similarities in body structures.
What are three types of evidence that support evolution?
200
Why did the horse loose its toes over time.
What is running fast and having better balance.
200
What are casts and molds.
What two forms are fossils found in?
200
What are similar structures that have similar traits inherited?
What is a homologous structure?
300
The difference between absolute and relative dating.
What is provding an exact date compared to an aproximate date?
300
What does sharing a common acenstor suggest.
What do similarities in early development suggest?
300
How did scientist determine why similar species are on different Galapagos Islands.
What is studying bone structure, similarities in DNA, fossils, and similarities in early development.
300
What is a Paleontologist
Who reveals fossils?
300
Name three different ways you can tell how species are related.
What are fossils, DNA, protein structures, embryos, and body structures.
400
How is relative dating performed by scientist.
What is looking around the surrounding rocks/depth of rocks?
400
What is relating ancient organisms to modern organisms in body structure.
What do fossils show?
400
Why are embryos so similar when they are in their first stage of life.
What is having a common ancestor and looking similar to the ancestor?
400
What are relative and absolute dating.
What are the two forms of determining a fossil's age?
400
If two organisms have similar DNA structures, does that mean they are related? What other evidence can help you see if they are similar.
It does mean they are similar protein structures, fossils, body structures, and early development can help you see if they are similar. They could also have a common ancestor.
500
What occours when materials carried by water are deposited around a hard structure
What is permineralization.
500
How do red pandas and racoons relate to eachother?
What is sharing a homologous structer
500
What is the originial ancestor of the whale.
What is a lizard like creature.
500
What are fossil records?
What are the millions of fossils that scientists have collected called?
500
Fossils of whales showed that their ancestors had legs and walked on land. Predict what the whale could be related to. Give your prediction and explain why that is so.
What are answers that varry, but whales do have hair and they are mammals. They also have leg bones tucked inside their body. Answer should be related to that.
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