VOLCANOES
A fairly "flat" volcano that looks like a circular shield laying on the ground.
What is a shield volcano.
The conventional, or widely accepted, age of Earth.
What is 4.5 billion years?
The number of CATEGORIES of fossils.
What are two (2)?
DNA is fragile and can be useless for analysis in just several ___________.
What is weeks?
The part of Coyote Peterson's body that really swelled up when he was stung.
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What are his LIPS or MOUTH?
A volcano formed mainly by the flow of low viscosity, liquid, lava.
What is a shield volcano?
The Sun shrinks this many feet in an hour.
What is five feet?
The two (2) categories of fossils.
What are body fossils and trace fossils?
Three (3) things that increase the destruction of DNA after death.
What are water, heat, sunlight, oxygen and UV radiation (ONLY NEED 3 OF THESE).
The pattern a honey bee makes when it returns to the hive with information on a new source of nectar.
What is a figure eight pattern.
A volcano produced by violent eruptions of higher viscosity, congealed blobs that split into tephra including cinders.
What is a cinder volcano?
The age of the Sun in order for it to have shrunk to its present day size.
What is 20,000,000 (20 million) years?
Fossils form by petrification when ________ fill pores in bone or wood.
What are minerals?
The kind of mummy tissue in which they were NOT able to find DNA.
What is soft tissue?
The kind of light a honey bee can see.
What is UV or polarized light.
A volcano that usually has only a single vent.
What is a cinder volcano?
Helium is produce by ________ decay in rocks.
What is radioactive?
During _________, an organism is squeezed between layers of rocks and leaves behind a carbon imprint.
What is carbonization?
The kind of mummy tissue in which they WERE able to find DNA.
What is hard tissue OR bones OR teeth.
When a honey bee returns to the hive, the "waggle" is makes gives the angle between a new source of food and the ____________.
What is the Sun.
A volcano that has layers of tephra and hardened lava.
What is a stratovolcano or composite volcano?
The number of years required to produce the amount of helium in the atmosphere today.
What is 40,000 years?
A mold fossil is formed when an organism leaves a _________ space in rock.
What is hollow?
The length of time that DNA lasts in the movie Jurassic Park.
What is 100 million years?
Coyote Peterson said the stings he got from the bees hurt more than the sting he got from the ________.
What is the bullet ant?