Vocab
Collection of fossils documenting the history of life on Earth.
What is Fossil Record.
Method for determining the order of past events without assigning a specific age to each event.
What is relative dating?
A fossil used for dating and correlating strata in which it is found.
What is index fossil?
Fossilized imprint.
What is a mold fossil?
Name our school mascot.
What is the Dust Devil?
When minerals transported by water fill in all the open spaces of an organism or organic tissue.
What is permineralization?
The oldest rock layer is on the bottom layer, while the youngest rock layer is on the top layer.
What is the law of superposition?
True or False: When the same fossils are found in all of the same layers across different regions of the Earth, then the rock layers and fossils are likely the same age.
What is true?
Fossilized dung.
What is Coprolite?
Name of school's three colors.
What is Blue, grey, and white?
Process by which organic matter exposed to minerals over a long period is turned into a stony substance.
What is petrification?
A geological feature that cuts across another is younger than the feature it cuts across.
What is the Law of crosscutting?
True or False: The longer the time period a species lived, the better the index fossil is.
What is false?
A different secondary material replaced the original material right after the death of the organism.
What is replacement fossil?
Name our two principals.
What is Mr. Gonzalez and Mrs. Froke?
Slow pyrolysis process by which biomass is converted into highly carbonaceous charcoal like material.
What is carbonization?
Rock fragments, or inclusions, found within a rock are older than the rock itself.
What is Law of inclusions?
Name two of the three things helps determine an index fossil.
Imprint in sediment, fills in with minerals froms ediment and ground water, can harden to form a fossil.
What is a cast fossil?
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What is six weeks?
Layered sedimentary formations that are created mainly by photosynthetic microorganisms like cyanobacteria.
What is Stromatolites?
Analogy - making a casserole and layering it one ingredient at a time.
This is an example of what type of relative dating?
What is Law of crosscutting?
Name two examples of an index fossils that we have learned about.
What is trilobite, stromatolite, brachiopods, t-rex, triceratops, mastodon, mammoth, inoceramid, pectin gibbus, graptolite, echinoid, gastropod, and crinoid?
Provides indirect evidence of ancient plants or animals.
What is trace fossil?
How many units have we done in Kesler so far?
What is 5 units?