Ch. 11 Review - Fossils

An overwhelming majority of fossils are

• dinosaurs

• missing links

• marine (ocean) organisms

• vertebrates

Petrified wood forms by a process called

• casting

• compression

• permineralization

• replacement

Which of these, if fossilized, would be considered microfossils?

• animal droppings

• exoskeletons

• plant spores

• all of these

Fossils that seem to appear reliably in the proper geologic sequence and that are used by secular geologists to determine the age of rock strata are called

• index fossils

• intermediate species

• missing links

• polystrate fossils

What remarkable discovery came from the examination of a thigh bone of a 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil in 2005?

• DNA

• prehistoric bacteria

• soft tissues

• stone arrowhead

What is the name for the study of fossils?

• archaeology

• paleology

• paleontology

• petrology

Who developed the system used today to classify organisms?

• Darwin

• Linnaeus

• Lyell

• none of these

Fossils showing organisms that are in the process of evolving from one form to another are know as

• index fossils

• mircrofossils

• transitional forms

• none of the above.

When the population of a species begins to shrink due to having more deaths than births in a generation, it is possibly headed toward

• extinction

• fossilization

• succession

• superposition

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