Which term meant "any naturally preserved evidence of life"
What is FOSSIL
100
How could an organisms WHOLE BODY get fossilized?
If it dries out, gets trapped in a bog, or becomes frozen
100
If you discovered many layers of undisturbed rock, where would you find the youngest fossil?
Top Layer
100
When did Mammoths become extinct?
10,000 years ago
100
About how old is Earth
What is 4.6 billion years
200
Use the term "mold" in a sentence.
After fossils are buried in sediment, the soft tissues decay leaving a MOLD of their body.
200
How does a fossil cast form?
If sediment fills the mold of an organism's shape, a cast or model of that organism forms
200
How would the name "trilobite" give a clue about it's body shape?
Tri= THREE. Three sections.
200
What was the name of ancient palm-like plants
Cycads
200
What made the dinosaurs smell so bad?
What is ROTTING FLESH BETWEEN THEIR TEETH
300
During our class lab, which material was considered the "cast" of your object.
What is CHOCOLATE
300
How does petrified would form?
The cells fill with minerals
300
Explain how scientists found fossils of warm weather plants on the icy continent of Antarctica? Isn't it too cold for that?
Continental drift
300
Which bird had similar characteristics of a dinosaur?
What is ARCHAEOPTERYX
300
I relayed a current event about the discovery of an ancient crystal. How did this change a scientific theory?
Earth could have supported life earlier than originally thought.
400
What might cause a MASS EXTINCTION?
What is natural disaster
400
List THREE qualities that make a fossil MOST LIKELY to form
Water, Hard Tissue, Speed of Water
400
What scientific evidence supports the theory of PANGEA?
The same fossils on continents divided by oceans
400
Fossil evidence suggests that this animal has not chanced very much over time. Which animal?
What is A SHARK
400
Where would someone find a large reserve of petroleum?
Under the ocean
500
Describe why an INDEX FOSSIL is important to date the age of rocks
The index fossil is of an organism that only lived during a specific time period. Therefore, if they find the fossil in a rock, they know it must have formed during that time period.
500
Describe how petroleum forms
Protists lived in the ocean, died, fell to the ocean floor, and became buried. Temperature and pressure builds. The petroleum collects in pockets between rocks.
500
Why is it possible to find a fossil of an ancient fish on the top of a mountain?
Continental drift/plate tectonics
500
Name on mass extinction and the theory that surrounds it.
Dinosaurs. Meteor theory.
500
If an insect is preserved in tree sap, the tree sap would harden around it and become WHAT?