Fossils, Rates & Patterns of Evolution

What is the main reason the fossil record is not complete?

• DNA, homologous structures, vestigial structures, compare bones & Skelton

• not all things that die become a fossil

• Whales are mammals, they have tiny hip bones, there's fossil evidence

• the earth is older than we once though

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The dating method that uses an index fossil to determine the relative age of a fossil

• relative dating

• radioactive dating

• gradualism

• punctuated equilibrium

The dating method that measures the half-life of radioactive isotope decay for a more precise measurement of a fossil is ___

• relative dating

• radioactive dating

• gradualism

• punctuated equilibrium

A T-rex skull is a fossil that is spread over a wide geographical area for a short period of time.

This would make it an ideal index fossil?

• true

• false

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You are using Carbon 14 to measure the age of a fossil. What is the half-life of carbon-14

• 9000 years

• 12,000 years

• 20,000 years

• 30,000 years

• 50,000 years

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The evolution pattern favored by Darwin. He believed evolution occurred in small changes over a long period of time. This is called ____

• punctuated equilibrium

• divergent evolution

• convergent evolution

• gradualism

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The evolution pattern favored by Eldridge and Gould. They believed in long periods of no changed followed by rapid burst of evolutionary change

• punctuated equilibrium

• divergent evolution

• convergent evolution

• gradualism

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A period of rapid change and speciation usually occurs after a mass extinction.

• True

• False

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Species that evolved from a common ancestor are said to have ____.

Also called divergent evolution

• convergent evolution

• adaptive radiation

• co-evolution

• punctuated equilibrium

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Species that have adaptive radiation will have a/an ____ to show they have a common ancestor.

• analogous structure

• homologous structure

• vestigial structure

• punctuated equilibrium

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