What is the Geologic Column?
How was the Geologic Column Created?
What do Fossils Tell About Extinction?
Vocabulary
100
What is the current time division of Earth's History?
What is Cenozoic Era
100
What is an ice age?
What is when glaciers spread beyond the polar regions and covered more of our planet than they do now.
100

DAILY DOUBLE 

What can cause gradual extinction?

What is habitat destruction, pollution, illegal poaching or hunting, etc.

100
What are trilobites?
What is extinct marine arthropods
200
Fossils found in amber are what?
What is insects body fossils
200
What evidence feature gives evidence of ocean sediments on land?
What is turbidites
200
What group do the theropods belong to?
What is Saurischian (lizard-hipped)
200
What are corprolites?
What is fossilized waste
300

DAILY DOUBLE 

What type of fossil is Tiger's eye?

What is petrified fossil

300
What do fossilized remains on land provide evidence of?
What is the Genesis Flood
300
Mammals and Paraceratherium belong to what group?
What is megafauna
300

DAILY DOUBLE

Large extinct animals

What is megafauna

400
Who observed that fossils always occur in specific order in the rock layers?
What is William Smith
400
Why is historical science limited?
Because it cannot be observed and seeks answers to events that no living person witnessed.
400
What is mass extinction and what best known animal did this happen to?
What is Extinctions of large numbers of species suddenly die out and dinosaurs are the best know animals.
400
Provides clues about the organism's behavior
What is trace fossils
500
Geologic Dating and Geologic time scales are based on these things.
What is Relative dating and absolute dating.
500
What are some evidence of the Genesis Flood?
What is Burial and Preservation of Remains, Widespread Sedimentary deposits, Flat Gaps, Turbidites, Ocean Sediments on the Continents, Continental-scale currents, incomplete geological systems.
500
DAILY DOUBLE- What is the Paleozoic Era know as?
What is Age of the Trilobites
500
Results of a major change of Earth? (Such as an ice age, Volcanic eruption, The Genesis Flood, etc.)
What is mass extinction
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