Lab Safety
Scientific Method
Fossils
Geological Time
Evolution & Adaptations
100
What should you do when you see something unsafe taking place in the lab?
What is notify the teacher immediately.
100
What type of observation involves describing something using your senses?
What is qualitative.
100
The youngest fossil is found in what layer of sediment?
What is the top layer
100
This law states that the oldest rock layer will be the bottom layer and the youngest rock layer is the youngest.
What is Law of Superposition
100
What is the process where the best suited individuals pass on their characteristics to their young that help them adapt and survive in their environment.
What is natural selection.
200
When working in the lab, when should personal protective equipment be worn?
What is ALWAYS
200
What is a series of steps called that were designed to help solve problems or answer questions?
What is the Scientific Method
200
A fossil that looks like a footprint is what type of fossil?
What is a trace fossil
200
Double Jeopardy: During the Pre Cambrian Eon, the EARLIEST life form found was.
Double Jeopardy Answer: What is Bacteria
200
Give an example of what scientists use as evidence of evolution.
What is homologous and analogous structures.
300
True or False: Contact lenses may be worn in place of safety goggles.
What is False
300
Double Jeopardy: When a scientists is using a tape measure to measure the distance from one fence post to the next, what is doing?
*Think in terms of observation
Double Jeopardy Answer: What is making a quantitative observation.
300
What type of fossil is a fossil that looks like the imprint of a leaf left behind?
What is a carbonized fossil
300
Present Day Earth is a part of what era?
What is the Cenozoic Era.
300
This is an example of a homologous or analogous structure?
What is analogous
400
What lab safety equipment should you use if you get acid in your eye?
What is the eye wash station
400
Double Jeopardy: What is the difference between relative age and absolute age?
Double Jeopardy Answer: What is Relative age describes how old/young something is compared to something else. Absolute age tells exactly how old something is
400
What type of fossil is pictured below?
What is a preserved fossil.
400
Name That Era: Reptiles, such as dinosaurs were successful during this era which is why is often called the Age of the Dinosaurs/Reptiles
What is Mesozoic
400
Which scientist developed the Theory of Natural Selection?
Who is Charles Darwin.
500
When mixing acid and water, you should always do this.
What is pour acid to the water.
500
If you increase the number of times you practice shooting free-throws, then you will increase your chances of making a basket every time.
What is the dependent/responding variable?
What is the baskets you make.
500
How is a fossil formed?
What is when an organism dies and is covered in a layer of sediment
500
A record of the life forms and geological event in Earth's history is called.
What is The Geological Time Scale
500
Which would most likely live longer on white sand? A white colored mouse or a white mouse with brown stripes?
Bonus: Why?
What is a white colored mouse.
Bonus: A white mouse would be camouflaged from predators and live long enough to reproduce.