BJU Earth Science Chapter 11 Review

An overwhelming majority of fossils are A. dinosaurs. B. missing links. C. marine (ocean) organisms. D. vertebrates.

• dinosaurs

• missing links

• marine (ocean) organisms

• vertebrates

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Petrified wood forms by a process called

• casting

• compression

• permineralization

• replacement

Which of these, if fossilized, would be considered microfossils?

• animal droppings

• exoskeletons

• plant spores

• pine needles

Fossils that seem to appear reliably in the proper geologic sequence and that are used by secular geologists to determine the age of rock strata are called

• index fossils

• intermediate species

• missing links

• polystate fossils

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What remarkable discovery came from the examination of a thigh bone of a 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex fossil in 2005?

• DNA

• prehistoric bacteria

• soft tissues

• stone arrowhead

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What is the name for the study of fossils?

• archaeology

• paleology

• paleontology

• petrology

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Who developed the system used today to classify organisms?

• Darwin

• Linnaeus

• Lyell

• none of these

Fossils showing organisms that are in the process of evolving from one form to another are known as

• index fossils

• microfossils

• transitional forms

• none of these

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When the population of a species begins to shrink due to having more deaths than births in a generation, it is possibly headed toward

• extinction.

• fossilization.

• succession.

• superposition.

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All the following statements would be acceptable to a young-earth paleontologist except which one?

• Most fossil-bearing sedimentary rocks came from the Flood.

• Birds were killed and buried later in the Flood event than amphibians were.

• Volcanic eruptions probably accompanied the Flood and released ash.

• Fossils found in the same layer came from organisms from the same habitat.

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