Fossils
Petrification/Plants
Fossil Record
Uniform or Catastrophe?
Wild Card
100
A thick, slowly flowing liquid produced by plants that can harden into a solid
What is resin
100
Petrification requires water that has a lot of ______ in it.
What is minerals
100
T/F: Only a tiny, tiny fraction of the fossils we find are of plants, reptiles, birds, and mammals
What is True
100
The view that most of earth's geological features are the results of large-scale catastrophes
What is Catastrophism
100
The process of counting tree rings to determine the age of a tree
What is Dendrochronology
200

Define Fossil

What is the preserved remains of a once-living organism

200

What is the conversion of organic material into rock

Petrification

200
First general feature of the fossil record
What is Fossils are usually found in sedimentary rock.
200
The view that most of the earth's geological features are the result of slow, gradual processes that have been at work for millions or even billions of years.
What is Uniformitarianism
200

The mechanical advantage of 4 pulleys working together

What is 4

300
The most likely thing to happen to the remains of a dead plant or animal
What is They decompose
300
Unlike fossil casts, petrification preserves what?
What is The entire fossil (vs. just the shape and outer details of the mold)
300
Second general feature of the fossil record
What is The vast majority of the fossil record is made up of hard-shelled creatures like clams.
300
A surface of erosion that separates one layer of rock from another
What is Unconformity
300
The 3 limitations of science
What is It cannot prove anything, It is not 100% reliable, and It must conform to the Scientific Method
400
Approximately how many species have gone extinct over the last 400 years
What is 1,000
400
Plants have tissue that is ideally suited for the ______ process
What is Carbonization
400
Third general feature of the fossil record
What is Many of the fossils we find are of organisms that are still alive today, and many are of organisms that are now extinct.
400

Could a "Uniformitarian" believe that the earth is only a few thousand years old?

NO

400

Tissue and other soft parts tend to be preserved in this type of fossil.





Amber or ice

500

Fossil type that depends on one of the other fossil types being formed first?

Fossil mold forms first.

500
Carbonized remains come as a result of the organism being _________
What is Squished
500
Fourth general feature of the fossil record
What is The fossils found in one layer of stratified rock can be considerably different from the fossils found in another layer of stratified rock.
500

A geologist believes that most fossils were laid down over a short time period in earth's past. 

Catastrophist

500

List the steps required to create a scientific law - (the steps for the scientific method)

What is Make observations, Form a hypothesis, Perform experiments to confirm hypothesis, Hypothesis is now a theory, Perform many experiments over several years, Theory is now a law

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