What word means an idea formed by analyzing evidence to explain an occurrence?
Theory
100
Compressed is to press together under ________
pressure
100
What is extinction?
When something is no longer to be living or existing.
Many of you have probably heard the commercial of the tigers being endangered. Hunters were killing to many of them, making the numbers of tigers decrease. If we did not start protecting them, there is a very good chance they would soon be EXTINCT
100
What word means matter that results from the decay of once-living matter?
a. sediment
b. inhabit
c. organic material
d. none of the above
c. organic material
100
True or false, sediment is debris or matter that settles at the bottom of liquid.
True
200
An artifact or piece of information that is helpful in forming a condusion is explaining what word?
Evidence
200
Mass extinction is the large scale of ________ one or several species in a relatively _______ time frame.
deaths;short
200
What does inhabit mean?
To live in
200
What word(s) means a group of organisms that are from the same family of plants or animals?
a. adapt
b. inhabit
c. biosphere
d. none of the above
b. inhabit
200
Mass extinction is the large scale of death in a relatively long amount of time.
False, mass extinction is the large scale of death in a relatively short amount of time.
300
What word means the combined results of all information from fossils found around the world?
Fossil Record
300
A theory is a(n) _________ formed by analyzing data to explain an occurrence.
explanation; idea
300
Give an example of organic material.
Any answer that makes sense and is made from once-living things.
(ex. dead leaves, composed)
300
Which of these are species? (There may be more than 1 answer)
a. marsupials
b. monkeys
c. king cobra
d. none of the above
c. king cobra
300
Metamorphic rock is made when it is heated and compressed in the Earth.
True; compressed means it to press together under pressure
400
Turned into stone is the definition of what word?
Petrified
400
In order to make statements more believeable and become fact, you need ___________ for support.
Evidence
400
If you looked into the eyes of Madusa, what would you become? (Use science vocabulary)
Petrified; turned into stone
400
We are located in Ohio.
What is another word that means the same thing as located?
a. moved
b. inhabited
c. departed
d. all of the above
b. inhabited; inhabited means to live in, we live in Ohio
400
True or false, extinction is the large scale death of one or several species in a relatively short time frame.
False, that was the definition of mass extinction.
Extinction is to no longer be living or existing.
500
What is a scale that divides Earths' 4.6 billion year history into distinct intervals of time?
Geologic time
500
A ________ is a specific group of organisms from the smae family.
species
500
How does evidence, extinction, and the fossil record relate to each other
The fossils are evidence that there were other plants and animals that were once living on the Earth before they became extinct.
500
The law of superposition says what about rocks?
a. the older rocks are above the younger rocks
b. the rocks are mixed together
c. the rocks could do anything
d. none of the above
d. none of the above; the law of superposition says that the younger rocks lay on top of the older ones
500
True or false, all relatives of dinosaurs are extinct.
False, birds are related to the dinosaurs, so they are not completely extinct.