Natural Selection
Becoming a Fossil
Fossils Age
Fossils
Mr. K's Science
100
This process, sometimes described as "survival of the fittest", describes how organisms with traits that are favorable for survival tend to survive longer, reproduce, and pass those traits on to their offspring.
What is natural selection?
100
What is it called when an insect gets covered in tree sap and it hardens and becomes a fossil?
What is amber?
100
A “rule” in the study of rock layers that says the oldest layers of any undisturbed Earth are found at the bottom and the youngest layers are found at the top.
What is the law of superposition
100
These are the preserved remains of a once-living organism.
What are fossils?
100
What is the next unit in Science called?
What is Habitat Wanted.
200
This word is defined as the generation of organisms that results from the reproduction of parent organisms.
What is offspring?
200
Why are fossils only made up of the hard parts of organisms?
What is the soft parts of the organism decomposes quickly.
200
Putting a series of events or objects, such as rock layers, in chronological order, but does not include actual dates.
What is Relative Dating
200
This type of fossil is the hollowed out space left behind in rock of the hard parts of an organism.
What is a mold fossil?
200
What music does Mr.k listen to during class work time?
What is classical music.
300
Any inherited trait that gives an organism an advantage in its particular environment.
What is an adaptation?
300
How does a mold get created?
What is an animal dies in mud and then decomposes and leaves an impression that then hardens into rock.
300
The study of the order and relative position of rock layers.
What is Stratigraphy
300
This type of fossil includes hard and soft tissues preserved by substances such as ice, tar, or amber.
What is preserved remains?
300
What is the video watching etiquette?
What is "Eyes on the screen, Nothing in your hands, and No talking".
400
This factor that influences natural selection describes the presence many natural differences in traits within a species.
What is variation?
400
What does Permineralization mean?
What is the hard parts of a dead organism get replaces by minerals.
400
a method of dating geological or archeological specimens by determining the relative proportions of particular radioactive isotopes present in a sample.
What is Radiometric Dating.
400
This type of fossil involves hard tissues being replaced by minerals.
What is a petrified fossil?
400
What is Mr. k's favorite dinosaur?
What is Ankylosaurus.
500
Who wrote a book called the "Origin of Species" that led to the theory of natural selection?
What is Charles Darwin.
500
What conditions does there need to be for a fossil to be formed?
What is an organism dies and quickly gets buried.
500
the process of determining the actual numerical age of an object or event, usually in years, using physical properties or scientific methods.
What is absolute dating.
500
Identify this type of fossil:
What is a carbon film fossil?
500
How many 8th grade classes and how many 7th grade classes has Mr. K taught over three years?
What is 7 8th grade classes and 8 7th grade classes