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WorksheetsIndiana Superbowl French Revolution Science #3 Earth Scienc
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
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Class
Date
1.
Crinoids are sometimes known as _________.
a)
“chicken of the sea”
b)
“sea lilies”
c)
“Indian beads”
d)
both C and D are correct
2.
How did ancient crinoids obtain their energy and nutrition?
a)
Crinoids are plants and get their needed energy and
nutrition through photosynthesis
b)
Crinoids are plants and get their needed energy and
nutrition by capturing floating organisms, much like
terrestrial carnivorous plants do today
c)
Crinoids are animals and their needed energy and
nutrition through the photosynthesis of symbiotic
bacterial that live between their cells
d)
Crinoids are animals that get their needed energy and
nutrition through filter feeding and extracting plankton
from the water
3.
Organization of fossils into a geologic column would be considered a form of _________.
a)
identification matrix
b)
paleontological
c)
absolute dating
d)
relative dating
4.
A sample from an object is found to have a ratio of Carbon-14 to Carbon-12 of ¼ that of a present day standard. What is the approximate age of the object?
a)
4 years
b)
5,730 years
c)
11,460 years
d)
22,920 years
5.
Compared to Uranium-Lead radiometric dating, Carbon-14 radiometric dating is used to determine the age of samples ___________.
a)
presumed to be much younger
b)
presumed to be much older
c)
taken only from igneous rocks
d)
taken only from marine environments
6.
If one finds a brachiopod fossil in a strata of sedimentary rock that is several meters lower in depth from coral fossils one found earlier, it can generally be assumed that ________.
a)
the brachiopods went extinct before the corals
b)
the brachiopods were fossilized before the
corals
c)
the corals were fossilized before the
brachiopods
d)
no relationship can be determined between the
fossils of the brachiopod fossils and the corals
7.
Georges Cuvier is often referred to as the “Father of ____”?
a)
Entymolygy
b)
Invertebrate embryology
c)
Paleontology
d)
Vertebrate exobiology
8.
Lamark and Cuvier held opposing views on the idea of _________.
a)
the existence of fossils
b)
the immutability of characteristics
of species
c)
the stratigraphy of the earth
d)
the differentiation of vertebrates
and invertebrates
9.
Lamark was able to ascend to his position to Royal Botanist for the Jardin du Roi (now known as the Jardin des Plantes) in some part due to _________.
a)
Lamark’s friendship with Comte du Buffon
b)
Lamark’s work in paleobotany
c)
letters of recommendation from Benjamin Franklin
d)
Lamark’s deep friendship with Cuvier.
10.
In Larmkian terms, evolution takes place through _______.
a)
descent with modification by means of natural selection.
b)
inheritance of acquired characteristics
c)
the fixity of species
d)
punctuated equilibrium
11.
The Pipe Creek Sinkhole near Swayzee, Indiana is notable because it is the only example known in the central eastern half of North America that displays fossils from which epoch?
a)
Creatacous
b)
Silurian
c)
Devonian
d)
Pliocene
12.
While much of Indiana’s deposits of limestone originated in the shallow seas of the Silurian, the Falls of the Ohio State Park and surrounding area display diverse reef communities that were developed primarily during which later period?
a)
Precambrian
b)
Cambrian
c)
Devonian
d)
Carboniferous
13.
The difference between crinoids and brachiopods is that ___________.
a)
crinoids are terrestrial and brachiopods are
aquatic
b)
crinoids are freshwater organisms and
brachiopods are marine organisms
c)
crinoids are plants and brachiopods are
animals
d)
crinoids are echinoderms and brachiopods
are related to mollusks
14.
The last of the dinosaurs died off by the end of which period?
a)
Cretaceous
b)
Jurassic
c)
Triassic
d)
Permian
15.
Trilobites are so named because _________.
a)
they are known to have bitten their prey
three times before eating it
b)
they are thought to make a peculiar trilling
sound when disturbed
c)
. their body is divided into three distinct
sections
d)
they were named after the Scottish scientist
who first identified them, Ethan Triloby
16.
Which initial substance would be best for the formation and preservation of fossils?
a)
mud
b)
cooling lava
c)
sand
d)
organic soil
17.
A trilobite would be most closely related to which modern living organism shown below?
a)
3-spined catfish
b)
other living trilobites; they are not extinct
c)
sea stars (starfish)
d)
crayfish
18.
Which of the types of dinosaurs shown below have been found as fossils in Indiana?
a)
Tyrannosaurus (Cretaceous)
b)
Allosaurs (Jurassic)
c)
Dimetrodon (Permian)
d)
none of these, Indiana has no true dinosaur
fossils
19.
Mastodon remains found in Indiana were alive here during which epoch?
a)
Paleocene
b)
Cretaceous
c)
Pleistocene
d)
Mesozoic
20.
The “Cambrian Explosion” took place approximately how many years ago?
a)
1,947 years ago in 70 C.E. (AD) when
Mount Vesuvius erupted near Pompeii
b)
500 to 540 million years ago
c)
4 billion years ago when the earth was
covered with volcanic activity and cooling
rock
d)
60—75 million years ago, just after
dinosaurs went extinct
21.
Three of the commonly used radiometric dating element series we see used in determining the ages of rocks and fossils include ________.
a)
potassium-argon; uranium-lead; radiocarbon
(carbon-nitrogen)
b)
iron-gold; iron-silver; uranium-platinum
c)
francium-europium; Americium-Europium;
Californium-Hotelium
d)
Helium-Hydrogen; neon-sodium; xenonradon
22.
Which is the correct listing of the periods of the “Age of Dinosaurs” from oldest to youngest?
a)
Permian, Pennsylvanian, Mississippian
b)
Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian
c)
Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous
d)
Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Paleozoic
23.
Though he viewed science as largely utilitarian, which American from the timeframe of our competition was an avid paleontologist and did much to advance this science?
a)
John Adams
b)
Thomas Jefferson
c)
George Cuvier
d)
Anthony Wayne
24.
Finding fossils of megafauna like mammoths, bison, and giant ground sloths at Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky indicates this area was terrestrial and quite biologically and ecologically active during which epoch?
a)
Pleistocene
b)
Holocene
c)
Anthropocene
d)
Paleocene
25.
A brachiopod looks most like which of these common modern organisms?
a)
horseshoe crab
b)
sea star (starfish)
c)
clam
d)
scorpion
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