Fossil Quiz 3: Chapter 4 Flashcards
Define arthropod
all creatures with jointed legs and a tough outside skeleton (exoskeleton) made of chitin: insects, crabs and shrimp, spiders, centipeds, and millipeds
Define cephalopods
means “head-footed,” since their tentacles com out of their heads; the most complex of all the invertebrates are the squid and octopus in the mollusk class
Define diatoms
microscopic, one-celled plants whose walls are decorated with glass (SiO2) in exquisite patterns; mined and sold as diatomaceous earth, which is used in filtering and abrasion
Define echinoderms
meaning “spiny-skinned,” members of the starfish/star group usually have bony plates and spines embedded
Define gastropods
means “stomach-footed,” since they walk on their stomachs; mollusk class which snils belong
Define malacology
a branch of science devoted to the study of mollusk shells
Define nautiloids
fossils with tapered, chambered shells; some are coiled like modern nautilus, others are curved like bananas, and still others are straight, like ice cream cones
Define palynology
the branch of paleontology that studies microscopic spores and pollen of plants
What are the first animals fossilized in abundance? How does the complexity of these first fossils disprove evolution?
Trilobites; Evolution assumes that the earliest fossils, which are found in the lowest layers, would be the most primitive and least complex since they hadn’t yet evolved into more complex beings. However, since these fossils reveal complex creatures of design, they disprove the idea that non-complex beings changed into complex beings.
Over 95% of all fossils found are ___.
seashells
How do fossil clams testify to a rapid burial?
Many fossil clams are found with both sides of the shell still together. That means the clam must have been buried so deeply and so fast that it couldn’t even open its shell to burrow out.
What is perhaps the best mollusk evidence of creation and Flood geology?
Shell squids
What is the largest coral reef in the world?
Great Barrier Reef in Australia
Which layer of the geologic column is referred by evolutionists as the Age of Crinoids and Flood geologists as the Zone of Crinoids?
Mississippi River
How do the crinoid fossils found in central United States testify to the Flood?
They show that those areas were at one time completely covered by water.