What can be learned about a fossil using relative-age dating?

its age compared to other fossils

its age based on radioactive decay

How are fossils created?

Traces of organisms get turned into stone.

Dead organisms are quickly buried for millions of years.

Why don’t we have a complete fossil record of all life that’s ever lived?

Fossil formation requires a rare mix of physical and biological conditions.

Fossils must be exposed at Earth’s surface to have a chance of being found.

Fossils can be destroyed when rocks erode, melt, or change composition.

What is the basic concept behind relative-age dating of fossils?

Lower rock layers were deposited earlier than upper rock layers

Upper rock layers were deposited earlier than lower rock layers

Older fossils contain relatively higher levels of radioactive isotopes than younger fossils

Younger fossils contain relatively higher levels of radioactive isotopes than older fossils

Environmental changes that cause extinction occur on what time scale?

They can occur over shorter or longer time scales

They are usually on the scale of a few years

They are always on the scale of hundreds to thousands of years

Which of these answers best describes a fossil?

remains of a once living organism found in layers of rock, ice or amber

organism from which other organisms are descended

body of an organism that died recently but has hasn't decomposed

What do fossils provide evidence for?

history of life in the geologic past

why species became extinct in the past

developmental patterns of living organisms

genetic similarities between living and extinct organisms

The diagram shows a portion of the fossil record in sedimentary rock. Which of these statements is true of the fossils and rock layers shown in the diagram?

Layer A contains the most recently formed fossils

Layer B contains the second oldest fossils

The fossils in layer B are older than those in layer D

The fossils in D are the most recently formed

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30 sec • 1 pt

What is made up of all the fossils ever discovered on Earth?

Fossil record

Trace fossils

Geologic time scale

Biological evolution

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There are two different ways to determine a fossil's age, which way is shown in the picture above?

Absolute - Age Dating

Relative - Age Dating

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What do we call a chart that divides Earth's history into different time units.
Examples: Eons, Eras, Periods

Fossil record

Geologic time scale

Evoluation

Extinction

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Extinctions occur because the environment changes.

True

False

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Which of the following is NOT a true statement about fossil evidence?

We are still discovering fossils.

Fossils are any remains including humans.

Sonar and sonography equipment help us locate buried objects.

We have found all the fossils there are.

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30 sec • 1 pt

Giant fossil ferns have been found in Canada. What conclusion can be drawn from this evidence?

Canada once had a much warmer climate.

Giant dragonflies once live among the ferns.

Canada was once covered by ancient sea.

Dinosaurs once lived in Canada.

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The fossil record shows that:

Most species have not evolved.

Some species are evolutionary transitions between major groups of organisms.

All species are today just as they were when they were created.

All of the above.

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Fossil Evidence

What is made up of all the fossils ever discovered on Earth?

There are two different ways to determine a fossil's age, which way is shown in the picture above?

What do we call a chart that divides Earth's history into different time units.
Examples: Eons, Eras, Periods

Extinctions occur because the environment changes.

Which of the following is NOT a true statement about fossil evidence?

Giant fossil ferns have been found in Canada. What conclusion can be drawn from this evidence?

The fossil record shows that:

What can be learned about a fossil using relative-age dating?

The impression of an organism in a rock

The fossil copy of an organism in a rock

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Fossil Evidence

What is made up of all the fossils ever discovered on Earth?

There are two different ways to determine a fossil's age, which way is shown in the picture above?

What do we call a chart that divides Earth's history into different time units.Examples: Eons, Eras, Periods

Extinctions occur because the environment changes.

Which of the following is NOT a true statement about fossil evidence?

Giant fossil ferns have been found in Canada. What conclusion can be drawn from this evidence?

The fossil record shows that:

What can be learned about a fossil using relative-age dating?

The impression of an organism in a rock

The fossil copy of an organism in a rock

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