Fossil Unit Review!

Preserved footprints, or fossilized feces are examples of _________

• trace fossils

• carbonized fossils

• cast fossils

• mold fossils

Which type of fossilization occurs when a sticky substance from plants captures and preserves an organism?

• perimineralization

• mold

• amber (resin)

• tar

Special fossils that indicate to geologists the boundaries of geological time and are used to compare other fossils to are called... (ex. ammonites and trilobites)

• index fossils

• trace fossils

• mold fossils

• cast fossils

Which type of rock and fossil dating gives the precise age of the rock or fossil?

• geologic time dating

• absolute dating

• relative dating

• differential dating

What type of rock are fossils most commonly found?

• igneous rock

• metamorphic rock

• sedimentary rock

• schoolhouse rock

What does the Law of Superposition state?

• older rock layers are on top as new layers form below

• younger rock layers are on top as older layers get pushed to the bottom

• rock layers are randomly oriented depending on Earth's natural events

________________ is the amount of time it takes for half of the parent molecules to decay into daughter molecules.

• relative age

• half life

• radiometric age

• why isn't it "son" molecules?

What type of fossil is an imprint in a rock?

• cast 
• trace 
• mold
• whole/part 

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This type of fossil forms when minerals soak into the buried remains, replacing the remains, and changing them into rock.

• mold
• cast
• petrified
• preserved

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Remains of animals can be preserved by preventing them from decaying. What substances might help preserve parts or a whole animal

• tar, amber, ice
• ice, carbonization, trace
• rock, amber, ice
• tar, carbonization, rock

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