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Understanding Fossils: Types, Formation, and Significance, Exams of Science education

Watts School of NursingScience education

Answers to questions about fossils, their formation, and significance. Topics include body fossils, indirect evidence, absolute and relative dating, and the role of fossils in understanding earth's history. Examples of fossil-bearing formations and organisms are discussed.

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unit 4 reading guide 41 Correct answer
questions
fossils - Correct answer_______ are the remains of organisms
body
body fossil
direct evidence - Correct answerwhen we find a fossil that is the remains of a _____
embedded in rock it os known as a ______. This type of fossil is ______ of life.
indirect evidence or trace fossil - Correct answerThe impression of the organism left in
this rock is not the organism itself os referred to as a _________
indirect evidence
trace fossil - Correct answerA fossil that shows something that was left behind during
the organisms daily life is known as ___________; also known as a ____________. It is
a proof that an organism existed
indirect evidence - Correct answerSomething produced biologically by the organism, but
not the organism, but not the organism itself let us know that an organism was present.
This particular fossil is another example of ______.
fossil - Correct answerNot all organisms are the remains of _______
the remains in the question must be 10,000 years old. - Correct answerOne additional
criteria must be met before you can classify the remains as fossils is
absolute dating - Correct answerIn order to test a rocks age, we use a process called
igneous - Correct answerScientist use the chemistry of what rocks to find how long ago
the rock layer was formed
volcanic - Correct answerIgneous equals what
relative dating - Correct answerWhat uses what we know about others layers to
estimate the age of the rock layer
bone vs rock
-no indivudal grain but pores
-different layers
-mammals - Correct answerExposes a key event in history: the impact of a large object
many millions of years ago and its effects on life.
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fossils - Correct answer_______ are the remains of organisms body body fossil direct evidence - Correct answerwhen we find a fossil that is the remains of a _____ embedded in rock it os known as a ______. This type of fossil is ______ of life. indirect evidence or trace fossil - Correct answerThe impression of the organism left in this rock is not the organism itself os referred to as a _________ indirect evidence trace fossil - Correct answerA fossil that shows something that was left behind during the organisms daily life is known as ___________; also known as a ____________. It is a proof that an organism existed indirect evidence - Correct answerSomething produced biologically by the organism, but not the organism, but not the organism itself let us know that an organism was present. This particular fossil is another example of ______. fossil - Correct answerNot all organisms are the remains of _______ the remains in the question must be 10,000 years old. - Correct answerOne additional criteria must be met before you can classify the remains as fossils is absolute dating - Correct answerIn order to test a rocks age, we use a process called igneous - Correct answerScientist use the chemistry of what rocks to find how long ago the rock layer was formed volcanic - Correct answerIgneous equals what relative dating - Correct answerWhat uses what we know about others layers to estimate the age of the rock layer bone vs rock

  • no indivudal grain but pores
  • different layers
  • mammals - Correct answerExposes a key event in history: the impact of a large object many millions of years ago and its effects on life.

tonge would stick if there were pores - Correct answerHow did scientist test for bone fossils? fish and dinosaurs - Correct answerWhat lived in hell creek? mammals, fish, reptiles - Correct answerWhat lived in bullock formation?

  • Correct answerHell creek vs tullock formation shows mass extinction (of dinosaur) is recorded in an ashy clay layer at the boundary between these two time periods.
  • Correct answerHow has the environment changed from millions of years ago?
  • Correct answerWhat is deep time? Humans 66 - Correct answerWho are now closer today in time to the tyrannosaurs that live __________ million years ago? sedimentary - Correct answerWhat is the predominant type of rock in Nilpena? sedimentary rock - Correct answerwhat rock is the only type of rock that can preseve fossils? massive storm sea floor organisms - Correct answerSandstones bed at nipples were formed by ________ that stirred up sediment and then covered the ________ burying the ________ that were living on the bottom. Textured organic surface - Correct answer_____________ are formed by bacterial or fungi mats that grew on the seafloor? complex communities of organisms - Correct answerMicrobial mats are? textured organic surface - Correct answerFossil evidence for microbial mats on the seafloor has been found at anilines. it occurs as sedimentary texture called?
  • rise of predators
  • development of biomineralization
  • increase in complexity of the ecosystem organism interaction
  • increase in depth and intensity of burrowing animals
  • destruction of the microbial mat grounds - Correct answerSome facts that brought about extinction of the Edicarans include? community of organism that live in a place and how they interact with each other and the environment - Correct answerDefine ecosystem

The onion cells seem to have more scattered dots. The elodea is closer together does not have a chloroplast. They both separate cells side by side - Correct answerCompare the elodea cell to the plant cells. How are they alike and how are they different?