Fossil chapter

Question 1

requirements for fossil preservation

Answer 1

hard parts, rapid burial

Question 2

rapid burial

Answer 2

dies, decays, buried, sediment; starts to compact

Question 3

fossil

Answer 3

remains of trace of past life; preserved components of sedimentary

Question 4

types of preservation

Answer 4

unaltered skeleton, petrification/ permineralization,

Question 5

petrification/ permineralization,

Answer 5

wood and bone, pores filed with quartz, light materials becomes much heavier

Question 6

fossil bone is?

Answer 6

heavy

Question 7

why is fossil bone heavy?

Answer 7

because it is filled

Question 8

replacement

Answer 8

pyrite and quartz, atom of atom replacement, molds and casts

Question 9

is replacement common?

Answer 9

yes

Question 10

mold

Answer 10

shell dissolved away

Question 11

cast

Answer 11

space filled with sediment

Question 12

is exceptional preservation common?

Answer 12

no

Question 13

exceptional preservation

Answer 13

most of organism preserved- including soft parts

Question 14

types of exceptional preservation

Answer 14

mummification, freezing, amber

Question 15

fossil types

Answer 15

body fossil, chemical fossil, trace fossil

Question 16

body fossil

Answer 16

skeleton

Question 17

trace fossil

Answer 17

tracks, burrows, records the behavior of organism, example: corprolites

Question 18

chemical fossil

Answer 18

chlorophyll

Question 19

classification of fossils

Answer 19

skeletal morphology

Question 20

types of classification of fossils

Answer 20

symmetry, and coiling