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Studies dinosaurs and fossils

• seismologist
• biologist
• physicist
• paleontologist

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What type of fossil is an imprint in a rock?

• cast 
• trace 
• mold
• whole/part 

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The changes of species over time

• Embryonic 
• Natural selection 
• Mimicry 
• Evolution 

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  A _____________________ is the remains or evidence of an   ancient organism.

• paleontologist 
•  fossil
• preserved
• extinct

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Something _____________________ has been kept from harm or   change.

• paleontologist 
•  fossil
• preserved
• extinct

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What type of event usually marks the end of an Era

• A Mass Extinction

• A Quinceanera

• An earthquake

• A Volcanic Eruption

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Extinct means

• A dead animal has become fossilized.

• There is no more of a species left.

• Permineralization has occured within the fossil.

• The fossil has become petrified.

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Although dinosaurs lived for over 150 million years, they may have become extinct because a catastrophic event changed the environment more rapidly than the dinosaurs could

• Breed

• Adapt

• Mutate

• Eat

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What was the last feline species to go extinct?

• Iberian Lynx

• Snow Leopard

• Saber Toothed Tiger

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Recent fossils can be found in upper rock layers. What two scientific ideas does this support?

• The law of superposition and the periodic nature of the elements

• Cell theory and the theory of evolution

• the theory of evolution and the law of superposition

• the periodic nature of the elements and cell theory

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