Evolution
Fossils
Fossils Date?
Sol-3
Miscellaneous
100
Who said evolution occured as a result of acquired characteristics?
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
100
What rock are fossils found in?
Sedimentary Rock
100
What type of dating tells you the absolute age of the rock or fossil?
Radiometric Dating
100
What caused the continents to move away from each other in Pangaea, and what is currently moving the continents about 2 cm per year?
Plate Tectonics
100
An organism that cannot adapt to a changing environment will most likely die out, which is also known as ____________.
Extinct or Extinction
200
Who is considered the "Father" of Evolution?
Charles Darwin
200
Complete this sentence:
Fossils tell a _____________.
story
200
What type of dating tells you which type of rock or fossil is older based on location in which it is found in the earth.
Relative Dating
200
At one point in time, Earth did not look like this but instead was one large supercontinent. What was that continent called?
Pangea
200
A ________ _______ is when only 50% of the original radioactive material remains.
Half Life
300
Eukaryotes evolved from Prokaryotes. The evidence that supports this is that mitochondria, chloroplast, and prokaryotes have similar features. Name 2 of these features:
Cell Membrane, Nucleotides, Phospholipid Bilayer, Small
300
What are 4 things a fossil can tell a scientist?
Age, diet, habitat, type of consumer, when it died, size, location, etc.
300
What story does this image tell?
How a triceratops turned into a fossil and how it was later unearthed by a paleontologist. (Triceratops died, water covered its skeleton, overtime buried in sediment, and bones turned to stone)
300
Early Earth’s ocean was very hot, contained carbon dioxide, iron, and other dissolved metals. As a result, what color was the ocean?
Brown
300
Humans can speed up Natural Selection, by choosing favorable traits in organisms. What type of selection is this?
Artificial Selection
400
Diversity among organisms is ONE of the driving factors that gives us Evolution. What type of reproduction gives us diversity?
Sexual Reproduction
400
Which fossil is the youngest?
Fossil 1
400
What type of fossils are used to identify and date rock layers in relative dating.
Index Fossils
400
Early Earth’s atmosphere contained water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, methane, and ammonia. As a result, what color was the sky?
Pinkish-Orange
400
What type of structure is this?
Homologous Structures
500
Evidence supports that Eukaryotes evolved from Prokaryotes. What is this theory known as?
Endosymbiotic Theory
500
Through the fossil record and radiometric dating, how many millions of years closer are humans to T. rex compared to T. rex to Stegosaurus?
60 million years (Humans to T-Rex)
90 million years (Stegosaurus to T-Rex)
500
What is the name of this giant armadillo that went extinct 10,000 years ago, most likely due to over hunting by humans and climate change.
Glyptodont
500
What caused Earth's atmosphere to change from one color to the color that it is today-blue?
Production of Oxygen via photosynthesis from early cyanobacteria.
500
What is the name of the organism that modern whales descended from?
Pakicetus