Investigation 1: I-Check Heredity and Adaptation

The fossil record documents the ____________ of life-forms throughout the history of life on Earth. Please check all that would apply.

• Change

• Diversity

• Entire Number

• Extinction

• Environment

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Which of the following best describes what we mean when we talk about the fossil record? (Mark the best answer)

• Leaf imprints found in the hardened mud

• The history of fossils in the last 400,000 years

• A fossil found in rock

• All the fossils that have been discovered

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Please Mark all that apply which explain why the fossil record is considered incomplete.

• Not all organisms become fossils

• Some organisms have not been extinct long enough

• There were times when fossils didn't form

• There are still fossils that haven't been found

• Some organisms are too small to make fossils

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These images represent the limbs of extinct organisms found in the fossil record: Write the letters of the fossil limbs in order from oldest (most ancient) to youngest (most recent).

• Z, X, W, Y

• Z, X, Y, W

• W, X, Y, Z

• Y, W, X, Z

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Why do we find more fossils of organisms such as snails and vertebrates than organisms such as jellyfish?

• Snails have more soft parts

• Vertebrates and snails have hard parts

• Jellyfish have soft parts

• Jellyfish have more hard parts than snails and vertebrates

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Fossils were discovered in four different layers of rock, A,B,C, and D. Please check the ones that are true. Check all that apply.

• Fossils found in layer A are most likely older than fossils found in layer B

• The age of a fossil is the same age as the rock it is found in

• Organisms with shells appeared before tetrapods

• Fish and organisms with shells lived at the same time

• According to the principle of superposition, layer D represents the oldest rock

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Which of the following provides evidence that fossils of limb structures from ancient and modern tetrapods are related?

• We know that ancient and modern tetrapods are related because they shared similar structures, such as a long bone

• They are not related

• Their names are closely related so we just say that they are related

• The soft parts of ancient organisms are the same as that found in modern organisms

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What ancient organism was the transitional organism between Eusthenopteron and the Acanthostega?

• Pederpes

• Tiktaalik

• T-Rex

• Lungfish

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The fossil record documents the_________________of life forms throughout the history of life on earth. Which TWO answers DO NOT correctly complete the statement.

• mating behavior

• diversity

• entire number

• age

• extinction

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Which of the following best describes what we mean when we talk about the fossil record?

• Leaf imprints found in hardened mud

• All the fossils that have been discovered

• The history of fossils in the last 400,000 years

• a fossil found in rock

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