Earth Science, Friday Exit Ticket, 1.4.19

The map shows where woolly mammoth and Columbian mammoth fossils have been found in North America. What kind of information does this map provide for paleontologists?

• The range of each mammoth species

• The seasonal migration routes of mammoths

• Where mammoths were most hunted

• Where mammoths moved as the climate changed

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

• Igneous

• Sedimentary

• Metamorphic

Of all the organisms alive today, what percentage do you think will eventually become fossils?

• Less than 10%

• 10-25%

• 25-50%

• More than 50%

What is paleontology?

• The study of fishes

• The study of life in the past

• The study of plants

• The study of insects

The fossil record help scientists

• better understand the kind of organism that lived in the past
• better understand how the environment has changed over time
• better understand how organisms have evolved over time 
• all of the above

A geologist discovers a fossil in different layers of rock. Which layer is the oldest? 

• the fossils in the upper rock layers
• the fossils in the lower rock layers

Fossil evidence can be used by scientists to prove which of the following?

• Organisms have been changing over time
• All of the organism that have ever lived on Earth have been discovered
• Organisms of the past are identical to those living today
• Organisms with bones and shells are more common than those that lack ( do not have) these structures

The millions of fossils that scientists have collected are called

• The Geologic Time Scale
• The Origin of Species
• The Fossil Record
• A really neat fossil collection