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Evolution
Fossils
Relative Age
Oceans
Ocean Zones
100
Father of Evolutionary Theory
Who is Charles Darwin?
100
Preserved remains of living things
What are fossils?
100
Principle that says the oldest rock layers are found in the deepest layers
What is the Law of Superposition?
100
Most abundant gas in ocean water
What is carbon dioxide?
100
Ocean zone characterized by sunlight, changes in temperature, and pounding waves
What is the intertidal zone?
200
Process by which organisms with the most favorable traits survive and reproduce
What is natural selection?
200
Type of rock that generally contains fossils
What is sedimentary rock?
200
Type of rock made from layers of hardened sediment
What is sedimentary rock
200
Percentage of Earth's water that is salty
What is 97%
200
Cracks in the ocean floor where hot gases escape
What are hydrothermal vents?
300
Differences among individuals in populations
What are variations?
300
Evidence of an organism's movements
What are trace fossils?
300
Igneous rock formation in which the magma cools on Earth's surface
What is an extrusion?
300
Production of light by living things
What is bioluminescence?
300
Coldest, darkest part of the ocean
What is the deep zone?
400
A trait that increases the chance of an organism's survival
What is adaptation?
400
Type of fossil that forms when minerals replace an organism
What is petrified?
400
Three clues used to determine if a rock layer is older or younger than rocks around it
What is Law of Superposition, intrusion, extrusion, fault?
400
Movement of cold, deeper water to the surface waters
What is upwelling?
400
Three zones of the ocean in order, starting at the shore
What is: intertidal zone, neritic zone, open ocean / deep zone?
500
A change in DNA that can be helpful, harmful, or neutral
What is a mutation?
500
A scientist that collects and studies fossils
What is a paleontologist?
500
Two conditions that must be true about an index fossil
What is 1) widespread and 2) lived only briefly?
500
At least 2 examples of producers in the ocean
What are kelp, plankton, algae, seaweed?
500
Largest zone of the ocean
What is the open ocean?