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Chapter 11 - Fossils Flashcards

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What kind of fossils are trilobites and trees that have turned to rock?

A

Petrified fossil

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What kind of fossils are shells of marine animals found in sedimentary rock?

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Original material

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What kind of fossil is a dinosaur footprint?

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Trace fossil

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What kind of fossil is the animal-shaped voids found in pyroclastic tephra from the AD 79 eruption of Mt. Vesuvius?

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Cast or mold

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Creationist or Evolutionist? Living things should be compared and classified by genetic similarities, suggesting that very different living organisms are biologically related.

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Evolutionist

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Creationist or Evolutionist? There are no fossils that show a clear transition of one kind of animal to another.

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Creationist

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Creationist or Evolutionist? Fossils of feathered dinosaurs show the transition of dinosaurs to birds.

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Evolutionist

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Creationist or Evolutionist? Changes in fossils found in rock strata higher in the geologic column are related to how they were carried in moving water and buried in sediments.

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Creationist

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True or False? There were probably dinosaurs on the Ark that survived the Flood.

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True

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What kind of natural resource is organic sedimentary rock?

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Coal

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What kind of natural resource is thick, oily liquid?

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Petroleum

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What kind of natural resource is a mixture of hydrocarbon gases methane, ethane, and propane?

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Natural gas

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What kind of natural resource is the only fossil fuel that is not a fluid?

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Coal

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True or False? Most scientists agree that petroleum and natural gas came from fossilized marine plants called phytoplankton.

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True

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What kind of fossils seem to appear reliably in the proper geologic sequence and are used by secular geologists to determine the age of rock strata?

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Index fossils

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What is the process by which petrified wood forms?

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Replacement

17
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What are any remains or trace of a formerly living thing preserved by natural processes?

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Fossil

18
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What are fossils showing organisms that are in the process of evolving from one form to another?

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Transitional forms

19
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What is the study of fossils?

A

Paleontology

20
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What is a fossilized track or burrow made by an animal?

A

Trace fossil

21
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True or False? The hardest and cleanest burning coal is petroleum.

A

False

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True or False? The main problem with using index fossils to determine the age of a rock layer is that scientists assign an age to the fossil on the basis of which layer it came from, then apply that same age to layers in other locations where the same index fossil occurs.

A

True

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True or False? The major difference between the old- and young-earth view on how coal developed is the amount of time they believed the development of coal took.

A

True

24
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True or False? A scientist’s worldview does not affect his classification of organisms because he can remain objective.

A

False

25
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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 heading toward ___________________.

A

Extinction

26
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The earliest historical record of the use of any fossil fuel was around _________________.

A

1000 BC

27
Q

A ____________________ is a large carnivore or scavenger.

A

Tyrannosaurus

28
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An _________________ is a porpoise-like marine reptile.

A

Ichtyosaurus

29
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An ____________________ is a squid-like animal with a coiled, chambered shell.

A

Ammonite

30
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A ___________________ is a three-horned dinosaur.

A

Triceratops

31
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A ____________________ is an “extinct” fossil fish that was found to be still alive.

A

Coelacanth

32
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An _____________________ is said to be the link between reptiles and birds.

A

Archaeopteryx

33
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A ____________________ is the possible identity of Job’s behemoth.

A

Brachiosaurus

34
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A _____________________ is a small extinct marine invertebrate.

A

Trilobite

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