11A Fossilization

11A Fossilization

Open Ended

How did all these fossils end up together?

Open Ended

Why do the La Brea Tar Pit fossils represent a local community of plants and animals that lived in Southern California during the Ice Age?

Open Ended

Is a chicken bond found in a waste dump a fossil? Explain your answer.

Open Ended

What type of fossilization process leaves behind a 3D shape of an organism made out of minerals?

Multiple Choice

Coquina-rock made from shells cemented into sedimentary rock

• original material

• petrified fossil

• cast or mold

• carbon print

Multiple Choice

A fossilized fern pattern between layers of rock

• original material

• petrified fossil

• cast or mold

• carbon print

Multiple Choice

Trilobites and trees that have turned to rock

• original material

• petrified fossil

• cast or mold

• carbon print

Multiple Choice

Animal-shaped voids found in pyroclastic tephra from the AD 79 eruption of Mt. Vesuvius

• original material

• petrified fossil

• cast or mold

• carbon print

Open Ended

What happens to the remains of nearly all living things that die? What normally does not happen to these organisms?

Open Ended

Where can we find fossils?

Multiple Choice

What remarkable discovery came from the examination of a thigh bone of a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil in 2005?

• DNA

• prehistoric bacteria

• soft tissues

• stone arrowhead

Open Ended

Why would evolutionists have a problem explaining the existence of soft tissues in mineralized fossils?

Multiple Choice

Most fossils are of dinosaurs or land animals.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Most fossils are ______.

• dinosaurs

• missing links

• marine organisms

• vertebrates

Multiple Choice

Most fossils are of dinosaurs or land animals.

• True

• False

Open Ended

What is a fossil? What can we learn from fossils?