Geology
Someone who studies rocks
Geologist
Evolution can only happen when this occurs to an organisms genes
random genetic mutation
Remains of an organism that are widespread, common, and from a specific time period
Index Fossils
The C-shaped supercontinent that formed by the end of the Paleozoic Era
Pangea
It's orbital period is 29.5 days
The moon
New rock is formed from
magma/lava
a feature (structure) that it no longer used or no longer used for the same purpose
vestigial structure
A common index fossil from the Paleozoic Era, the remains of these underwater organisms indicate that a rock layer is from before the Great Dying, aka the End-Permian Extinction
Trilobites
The German Explorer and scientist Alfred Wegener spent his life gathering evidence to prove his theory of: (Two words)
Continental Drift
It's when the moon passes between the sun and the Earth casting a shadow on part of the Earth
Solar Eclipse
The law that states: Rock layers that are lower are older than rock layers that are higher up
Law of Superposition
Structures in two or more species that are similar in structure or composition, and may be used for a similar overall purpose (like movement, or circulation)
homologous strucutres
When paleontologists find the fossilized remains of many individuals from the same species in one location it can tell them this about how the animals lived:
They lived in herds
Daily Double
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It's the term for when two bodies face each other at all times. e.g. Pluto and its moon Charon
Tidally locked
The scientific name for a rock layer
Strata
Complete the sentence: The vast majority of genetic mutations that occur are...
neutral for the organism
Ambulocetus is a mammal that lived in shallow water. It is a transitional species that is an evolutionary relative of which modern day mammal?
Whales
The continental plates were finally proven to be moving by measurements taken in the 1980s. What technology allowed scientists to make these measurements?
Satellites and lasers
It's the region of space beyond Neptune that is as much as 1000 AU wide and made up of mostly small, icy bodies.
Kuiper Belt
Fossils are only found in this type of rock
Sedimentary Rocks
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Archaeopteryx is a transitional species between what and what?
Dinosaur and birds
While geologists mostly rejected Alfred Wegener's theory that the continents were moving, paleontologists and paleobotanists (studying extinct plants) supported him. Why did they support him?
Because his theory explained how fossils of the same species appear on different continents when they could not have traveled across oceans on their own.
It's the number of planets found to be orbiting the Trappist-1 Star
Seven