Heredity and Adaptation I-check 1

if you found remains, traces, or imprints of animal or plant life preserved in Earth's crust, you discovered

• a fossil

• the fossil record

• relative dating

• biodiversity

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A theory that says sedimentary rocks on the bottom are older than the rocks on top. This best describes which choice?

• The Big Bang Theory

• Carbon 14 Dating

• The Law of Conservation of Mass

• The Principle of Superposition

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Look at the images below. Fossils were discovered in four different layers of rock. Which statement is correct about the fossil record?

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

• Fish and organisms with a shell never lived during the same time.

• Dinosaurs appeared before fish.

• Tetrapods are the first known organisms to appear in the fossil record.

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Which fin and bone structure represents an earlier organism in the fossil record?

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Which bone structure represents an earlier limb and bone structure in the fossil record?

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Choose the word below that correctly completes the statement. The fossil record documents the

• the mating behaviors of all organisms that ever lived.

• all fossils that are 50, 000 years old or less.

• all fossils on Earth.

• the history of human industrialization.

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Any living thing

• habitat

• species

• population

• organism

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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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Choose each statement that explains why the fossil record is considered incomplete. (HINT: You should pick 3.)

• 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.

• Not all organisms become fossils.

These images represent the limbs of extinct organisms found in the fossil record. Choose the answer that puts them in order from oldest (most ancient) to youngest (most recent).

• Z, Y, W, X

• X, Z, Y, W

• Z, X, W, Y

• Y, W, X, Z

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