History of Life Vocabulary Quiz

What is a scientist that studies fossils?

• Paleontologist

• Fossiologist

• Dinologist

• Physicist

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What provides evidence about the history of life on Earth, and shows how organisms change through time?

• fossil record

• index fossil

• geologic time scale

• half-life

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When scientists use radioactive isotopes to estimate the age of a fossil, this is use of

• fossil record

• relative dating

• geologic time scale

• radioactive dating

When a fossil is compared to the age of other fossils in the same layer, this is use of

• fossil record

• relative dating

• geologic time scale

• radioactive dating

The amount of time it takes for half of the radioactive atoms in an isotope to decay is known as

• fossil record

• index fossil

• geologic time scale

• half-life

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Which is the longest amount of time?

• era

• century

• second

• decade

Built a simulation of early Earth's gases and electricity

• Oparin

• Darwin

• Mendel

• Miller/Urey

An era, which was between 544-248 million years ago.

• Cenozoic era

• Mesozoico

• Phanerosoic

• Paleozoic

This era are divided into three periods: the Triassic, the

Jurassic, and the Cretaceous. Followed by the mass extinction at the end of the Permian period.

• Cenozoic era

• Mesozoic

• Phanerosoic

• Paleozoic

A preserved remnant or impression of an organism that lived in the past.

• Hox Genes

• Common Ancestor

• Fossil

• Stasis

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