Biology Chapter 14 History of Life

Preserved evidence of an organism.

• rock
• fossil
• furniture
• cloud

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Amount of time it takes for half of the original isotope to decay.

• double-life
• quarter-life
• half-life
• full-life

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Record of the Earth's geologic history.

• tree record
• cloud record
• Geologic time scale record

• fossil record

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In the geologic time scale this lasts tens of millions of years.

• Eon
• Century
• Period

• Millennium

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Lasts hundreds of millions of years in geologic time.

• Decade
• Millennium
• Century
• Era

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Longest unit of time in the geologic time scale lasting billions of years.

• Jurassic period
• Mesozoic era
• Cenozoic era
• Eon

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Decay of radioactive isotopes to measure the age of a rock or fossil.

• Radiometric dating
• Carbon footprint
• Solar eclipse
• Geothermal energy

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Scientist who studies fossils.

• zoologist
• botanist
• geologist
• paleontologist

First life on land emerged during this era.

• Paleozoic era
• Jurassic era
• Cenozoic era
• Mesozoic era

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What caused the ending of the Paleozoic era causing 90% of marine organism death.

• Silurian-Devonian extinction event
• Devonian-Carboniferous extinction event
• Mass extinction

• Jurassic-Cretaceous extinction event

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