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Question 1

Forms when entire organisms or parts of organisms are preserved

Answer 1

Body Fossil

Question 2

How is relative dating different from absolute dating of rocks?

Answer 2

Relative dating compares geological features and gives approximate ages while absolute dating provides more specific ages.

Question 3

Fossils of simple organisms have been found at the bottom of rock layers, while more complex organisms have been found at the top. What information can this give us?

Answer 3

Organisms have evolved over time.

Question 4

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Answer 4

C, B, and A

Question 5

Which geological features show cross-cutting relationships?

Answer 5

D and E

Question 6

Which geological feature is the youngest?

Answer 6

E - fault line

Question 7

Scientific law that the oldest layer is the layer on the bottom and the youngest layer is the layer on top.

Answer 7

Law of Superposition

Question 8

In which environment are fossils more likely to form?

Answer 8

ocean floors or lake bottoms

Question 9

Which organism is most likely to become a fossil?

Answer 9

Animal that fell into a tar pit

Question 10

In what type of rock would you most likely find fossils?

Answer 10

sedimentary - deposition and cement

Question 11

Principle of cross-cutting relationships

Answer 11

Younger feature cuts through an older feature

Question 12

Why can’t you find fossils in Igneous Rocks (made from magma)?

Answer 12

The heat involved in forming igneous rock destroys the organism.

Question 13

Which is the oldest layer

Answer 13

E

Question 14

Which layer contains the oldest organisms

Answer 14

E

Question 15

What determines the age of a fossil?

Answer 15

When the fossilized organism died

Question 16

In the example above, which fossil is the oldest?

Answer 16

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Question 17

Fossils are often found in sedimentary rock. In undisturbed sedimentary rock, where would the oldest fossils be found?

Answer 17

The bottom layer

Question 18

A fossil is what is left over of a living thing from the _______.

Answer 18

past

Question 19

The Tasmanian tiger is extinct. That means there are ____________.

Answer 19

no more Tasmanian tigers

Question 20

The preserved remains of something that lived long ago is ________.

Answer 20

a fossil

Question 21

A fossil with fins shows that animal most likely could _______.

Answer 21

move through water

Question 22

What statement is true based on the rock strata?

Answer 22

There was once a salt water sea, and now there is a forest.

Question 23

Which layer is the youngest?

Answer 23

Level 1

Question 24

Which layer is the oldest?

Answer 24

Level 5

Question 25

Fossil Record

Answer 25

Collection of all the organisms that have been preserved in rock.

Question 26

An area is currently a desert. What evidence would tell us it used to be an ocean?

Answer 26

fish fossils

Question 27

_________ are the remains of dead plants and animals.

Answer 27

fossils

Question 28

Not every animal or plant that dies becomes a fossil, which best helps fossils form

Answer 28

sediment buries the organism

Question 29

The continents used to be joined together in a giant land mass called...

Answer 29

Pangea

Question 30

The prefix "geo" means

Answer 30

Earth

Question 31

The word __________ means there are no more animals left of its kind.

Answer 31

Extinct

Question 32

Fossilized mark that is formed in soft sediment by the movement of an animal

Answer 32

trace fossils

Question 33

Forms when the mud or sand hardens to stone where a footprint, trail, or burrow of an organism was left behind.

Question 35

Example: An animal's foodprint hardened into stone preserving it. This can include birds or other various animals of the past.

Answer 35

Trace Fossil

Question 36

trace fossil

Answer 36

evidence of the activities of an organism

Question 37

paleontologist

Answer 37

a scientist who studies fossils to learn about organisms that lived long ago

Question 38

evolution

Answer 38

The gradual change in a species over time

Question 39

sedimentary rock

Answer 39

A type of rock that forms when particles from other rocks or the remains of plants and animals are pressed and cemented together

Question 40

sediment

Answer 40

small, solid pieces of material that come from rocks or living things

Question 41

extinct

Answer 41

when an organism is no longer in existence

Question 42

Alfred Wegener

Answer 42

A German scientist who proposed the theroy of continental drift

Question 43

continental drift

Answer 43

The hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations

Question 44

Pangea

Answer 44

A supercontinent containing all of Earth's land that existed about 225 million years ago.

Question 45

fossil

Answer 45

The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past

Question 46

fossil record

Answer 46

Chronological collection of life's remains in sedimentary rock layers