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Evolution
Fossils
Earth's history
Geologic Time Scale
A ittle of everything
100
Adjustment to environmental conditions
What is adaptation
100
Fossils that are stone-like
What is petrified
100
The half-life of Carbon-14 is 5,730 years. How much parent material would be left after 5, 730 years?
What is 50%
100
Scientists estimate that Earth began to form how long ago?
4.7 billion years
100
The classification of organisms
What is taxonomy
200
Genetic diversity amoung members of a species
What is variation
200
Fossils that are a footprint or imprint of the organisms activities
What is trace
200
What type of rock are fossils found in?
What is sedimentary
200
What is the largest division of time in Earth's past
What is eon
200
The scientist who proposed evolution through natural selection
What is Charles Darwin
300
Similar Structure, Different function
What is homologous
300
Fossils that have a carbon film left by the organism
What is carbonized
300
The rock layer on the bottom is the
What is oldest
300
Continents were once combined in a supercontinent called
What is Pangea
300
A mold fossil that fills with sand or mud and hardens into the shape of the organism
What is cast
400
Different structure, same function
What is analogous
400
When an organism is buried, decays, and a hole is left in the shape of the organism
What is mold
400
Ice cores are most useful for determining the change in what Earth conditions?
What is atmospheric composition
400
The time scale of Earth History is called
What is The Geologic Time Scale
400
fossils that existed for a short period of time that can be used to determine the relative age of rock
What is Index Fossils
500
The appearance of new organisms is explained by
What is Theory of Evolution
500
Forms when entire organisms or parts of organism are prevented from decaying by being trapped in rock, ice, tar, or amber
What is preserved
500
Igneous rocks that are formed inside of the Earth's surface between sedimentary rocks.
What is intrusion
500
List the divisions of the Geologic Time Scale in order of largest to smallest (period, eon, epoch, era)
What is eon, era, period, epoch
500
The collection of all discovered fossils make up the
What is fossil record