PS Semester 2 Finals

Question 1

Archaeopteryx’s fossil never left what country?

Answer 1

Germany

Question 2

Where did the calcium in your bones originally come from - before you were born?

Answer 2

Supernovas

Question 3

Evidence of what human development 35,000 years ago was found for the first time in France?

Question 4

What protects elephants from gamma rays?

Question 5

What marked the beginning of the current - modern era - in history

Question 6

What technology came before the previous answer and allowed the previous answer do get started?

Question 7

What’s the name of Charles Darwin’s book?

Question 8

What group of animals lived on the coast of Pangea?

Question 9

The previous group HAD to live on the coast because of? (

Question 10

Sci name for the part of the brain that allows modern humans to talk?

Question 11

What new technological advancement did humans need before they could have agriculture?

Question 12

What scientifically allows you to not freeze to death every night and get cooked every day?

Question 13

What one physical characteristic do all humans have - but apes, chimps, monkey, etc. don’t have?

Question 14

How large are modern humans brains in cubic centimeters?

Question 15

The name of the person who started the Green Revolution?

Question 16

Where was the first ancestor of whales found?

Question 17

What is the name of the DNA gene that allows modern humans to be able to speak?

Question 18

Sci name when most of a species dies and future generations DNA comes from few survivors?

Question 19

What killed the largest animals in Australia and everywhere else?

Question 20

The original ancestor of whales looks very similar to what kind of animal today?

Question 21

What is the Sci name for why whales don’t have to waste energy trying not to sink?

Question 22

What is the Sci name of the long plates some whales have known their mouth instead of teeth?

Question 23

What was the scientific evidence that was most important in the skeleton of Dinoticus?

Question 24

The previous evidence was important because it proved?