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The gradual change in species over time is...

• Evolution
• Nucleotide 
• Adaptation
• Natural Selection

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In order to be an index fossil the fossil must

• exist for a short period of time over a large area.
• exist for a long period of time over a small area.
• exist in spotty areas around the world.
• exist, die out,  and come back into existence.

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Traces or remains of organisms that lived long ago

• Fossil
• Unconformity
• Superposition
• Column

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When something is _____________________ it no longer exists.

• paleontologist 
•  fossil
• preserved
• extinct

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evidence of past life preserved in rock.

• carbonization

• cast

• fossil

• fossilization

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What do the marine fossils of Virginia indicate about this area's past?

• We had volcanoes at one point

• Dinosaurs didn't live here

• Dinosaurs did live here

• Virginia was once under water

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a scientist who studies fossils in order to understand the ancient history of life on Earth

• descendant species

• shared structure

• paleontologist

• speciation

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Scientists find dinosaur fossils in the bottom rock layers of a cliff and mammal fossils in the middle rock layer of the cliff. Which could best be concluded from this evidence?

• Dinosaurs ate plants.

• Dinosaurs were eaten by the mammals.

• Dinosaurs lived on Earth before the mammals.

• Dinosaurs and mammals lived at the same time.

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Trilobites were alive during the _____________.

• Cenozoic

• Mesozoic

• Paleozoic

• Cretaceous

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What type of animal lived only during the Mesozoic Era?

• Birds and Mammals

• Mammals

• Dinosaurs

• All of them

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