Ch. 8 Flashcards
Analyzing Can provide info on ancient diet
Bones and teeth
What is the difference between relative and absolute dating?
The use of years to express age
How old is the earth
4.6 billion
The study of what happens to the remains of an organism is called
Taphonomy
Chlorine dating is what type of dating?
Chemical
What is the most important variable in reconstructing ancient climate?
The mature estimated
A mummy is discovered whose tomb includes cloth food and other organic remains. What dating method should be used?
Carbon14
Based on the molecular clock the split of chimps and homing occurred when?
8-10 maya
The molecular clock has been used together one the phylogenetic relationship of species based on
A species lineage
For fossilization to occur
The bones must remain in an anoxic environment
An index fossil is?
A fossil that is used to categorize a stratigraphic layer
What is not a relative method of datin?
Radiocarbon dating
Taphonomy is the study of
The process that affects an organisms remains
If there is a coin found above a pot near a volcanically active area what can we assume
The pot is older than the coin
