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Fossils
Adaptation
Radiometric and Relative Dating
Mass Extinction
Natural Selection
100
Any remains, impression, or trace of a living thing of a former geologic age, as a skeleton, footprint, etc
(What is) A Fossil
100
_________ - Ajustment to environmental conditions.
(What is) adaptation
100
_______ Dating is the way scientists are able to identify how old fossils are. Using radioactive isotopes.
(What is) Radometric Dating
100
A short geological time period where many animals go extinct
(What is) a mass extinction
100
How traits are passed down
What is natural selection?
200
What are these: Dinosaur, leaves , and callico scallop.
(What are) examples of fossils?
200
Give 3 examples of adaptation.
Camoflague Wings Gills Fur Claws Eyelashes (Etc)
200
______ dating attempts to determine the order of past events, without necessarily determining their absolute age.
(What is) Relative Dating
200
Event took place at the end of the Ordovician, when according to the fossil record, 60% of all genera of both terrestrial and marine life worldwide were exterminated.
What is the first mass extinction?
200
_______ - the animals with the best traits survive.
What is survival of the fittest ?
300
___________ a person who studies fossils
(What is) a Palentologist
300
Lizards have ________ as an adaptation
(What are) tails, scales, etc.
300
How is Radiometric Dating Measured?
Location of Zinc
300
There are ___ mass extinctions.
six
300
There is a bird who was born with more feathers than its siblings. During the Winter, which one does Natural Selection favor, the bird or the bird's siblings?
(What is) The Bird
400
A hard part of a plant or an animal is most likley to undergo this process which makes it a fossil.
(What is) fossilization
400
A bird has what adaption that helps them escape from predators?
(What are) wings
400
What is a method of radiometric dating?
Carbon 14
400
The fossil record of the end mass extinction reveals a staggering loss of life: perhaps 80–95% of all marine species went extinct.
What is 3rd mass extinction?
400
If there are green and brown beetles in the desert, the green will be eaten. IN the future, how will beetles start to develop? (What color beetles will there be more of?)
(What is) brown
500
Fossilizied feces, footprints, and plants are types of these fossils.
(What is) an imprint fossil
500
Blending into
(What is) camoflage?
500
Climate chronology is an example of ________ dating
(What is) Relative (Dating)
500
When was the sixth mass extinction?
There hasn't been one, or we are in the midst of one. (Depends on the opinion.
500
Give an example of animals with two different traits, and which one would survive. (Example: A panda with short fur and a panda with long fur during the winter; The one with long fur would do better and survive longer.) YOU CANNOT USE THIS EXAMPLE!
(See if what they say is right or wrong, it depends on what they say. Theres many different answers for this.)