Types of Fossils
Definitions
Evolution/Charles Darwin
True or False
Miscellaneous
100
These types of fossils are organic remains that can be macro or microscopic.
Body Fossil
100
The prehistoric remains or traces of organisms usually preserved in sedimentary rocks.
Fossil
100
The other name used to refer to DNA.
Deoxyribonucleic Acid
100
Genes that control traits do not blend during inheritance.
True
100
This type of animal learned through organic evolution to use a part of its body like tools.
Birds
200
These types of fossils are indirect evidence of the presence of organisms.
Trace Fossil
200
The process whereby organisms have changed since life originated.
Biologic Evolution
200
The phrase "Survival of the fittest" refers to.
Natural Selection
200
Males have the XX chromosome while females have the XY.
False
200
Sharks, Ichthyosaurs, and Dolphins are related by this type of evolution.
Convergent Evolution
300
This type of body fossil is completely preserved usually frozen, mummified, or in amber or tar.
Unaltered Remains
300
Natural populations of similar individuals that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring.
Species
300
The year that Darwin's "On the origin of species by means of natural selection" was published.
1859
300
Mutations can be beneficial but never can be harmful.
False
300
Elephants are evolved from what other species due to parallel evolution.
Woolly Mammoth
400
This type of body fossil has undergone a type of a change and is not fully preserved due to permineralization, recrystallization, replacement, or carbonization.
Altered Remains
400
Remnants of features that were functional in ancestors.
Vestigial structures
400
The scientist who independently came up with the idea that natural processes select favorable individuals from populations for survival.
Alfred Wallace
400
Concretions are local precipitation of minerals.
True
400
This bird with colored feet was studied by Charles Darwin on the Galapagos Islands.
Blue-Footed Booby
500
These types of fossils have a cavity with the shape of a bone or shell and a mold filled by minerals or sediment.
Molds and Casts
500
These regulate the development of major body segments.
Hox Genes
500
This results from different processes such as isolation of populations, accumulation of minor changes in a population, or rapid change over short periods.
Speciation
500
Only 50% of all species that ever lived are extinct.
False
500
Ancestor-descendant relationships, tectonic plate motions, and speed of evolutionary change shows us this information about fossils.
Geographic distribution