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What are body fossils?
a) Used to help relative date fossils.
b) Are any imprint of an animal activity from the past.
c) Are formed from animal bodies or their imprints.
d) Finds exact age of organisms
What are trace fossils
a) Used to help relative date fossils.
b) Are any imprint of an animal activity from the past.
c) Are formed from animal bodies or their imprints.
d) Finds exact age of organisms.
What is absolute dating?
a) States that the older fossils are found deeper in the ground if layers are undisturbed.
b) Puts organisms in order of age.
c) Every animal of the same type die.
d) Finds exact age of organisms.
What is relative dating?
a) States that the older fossils are found deeper in the ground if layers are undisturbed.
b) Puts organisms in order of age.
c) Every animal of the same type die.
d) Finds exact age of organisms.
What is the Law of Superposition?
a) All organisms that have been found on Earth as fossils.
b) Every single animal of many types die.
c) States that the older fossils are found deeper in the ground if layers are undisturbed.
d) Used to help relative date fossils.
What are index fossils?
a) Used to help relative date fossils.
b) All organisms that have been found on Earth as fossils.
c) States that the older fossils are found deeper in the ground if layers are undisturbed.
d) Every single animal of many types die
What is an extinction?
a) Every single animal of many types die.
b) Puts organisms in order of age.
c) Used to help relative date fossils.
d) Every animal of the same type die.
What is the fossil record?
a) Are any imprint of an animal activity from the past.
b) All organisms that have been found on Earth as fossils.
c) Finds exact age of organisms.
d) Puts organisms in order of age.
What is a mass extinction?
a) Every animal of the same type die.
b) Used to help relative date fossils.
c) Every single animal of many types die.
d) All organisms that have been found on Earth as fossils.
What two things must happen for an organism to become a fossil?
a) Be buried in fine sediment and make an imprint before decomposing.
b) Be buried in coarse sediment and decompose quickly.
c) Be weathered and eroded into sediment.
d) Have hard tissues and be burned.
What is more likely to fossilize a jellyfish or a snail? Why?
a) Snail because it is a small animal.
b) Jellyfish because it is made of soft body parts.
c) Snail because it has a hard shell and can be buried in sediment.
d) Jellyfish because it is found in and near water.
Which one is not a body fossil?
a) skull
b) skeleton
c) Nests
d) plant imprint
Which is not a trace fossil?
a) trails
b) tracks
c) burrows
d) ribs
Which one is NOT a characteristics of index fossils?
a) Index fossils are extinct today.
b) Index fossils are widely distributed.
c) Index fossils are found in a few locations around the world.
d) Index fossils lived for a relatively short period of time.
The fossil record shows that life on Earth has changed over time. For example, paleontologists have found that older rocks contains fossils of
a) Both simple and complex organisms.
b) Only organisms that are alive today.
c) Organisms are more complex than those alive today.
d) Organisms that are simpler than those alive today.
Why is limestone a good sedimentary rock for fossil creation?
a) It is because it's a sedimentary rock.
b) It is coarse sediment to protect the organism.
c) It is made of medium sediment to provide pressure for an imprint.
d) It is made of fine sediment to keep out water carrying oxygen.
How should an organism decompose to have the chance at being a fossil?
a) fast
b) slow
c) quickly
d) medium
Which is NOT a way a fossil can be destroyed before getting discovered?
a) frozen
b) moved
c) eroded
d) crushed
When using the Law of Superposition, where is the oldest rock? Youngest rock?
a) middle, top
b) top, bottom
c) bottom, middle
d) bottom, top
Which one is an example of absolute dating?
a) A scientist comparing rocks to one another.
b) A scientist is trying to figure out if a fossil is older or younger than another in the fossil record.
c) A scientist uses the radioactive decay of uranium to find the age of a rock.
d) A scientist has a short period of time to figure out the age.
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