History Of Life

Question 1

Archeologist

Answer 1

Studies the remains of ancient societies to learn about past ways of life

Question 2

Anthropologist

Answer 2

Studies early human beings and the way society and culture originate

Question 3

Paleontologist

Answer 3

Studies the existence of life on earth in prehistoric times through fossils or plants

Question 4

Biogeography

Answer 4

The distribution of existing and extinct plant and animal species in specific geographical regions

Question 5

Fossil

Answer 5

Complete organisms or their remains, imprints, or traces of organisms, usually in preserved rocks

Question 6

Extinction

Answer 6

Can be a natural process where small changes in climate change and habitat result in a species being less suited to the environmental conditions and then it dies out

Question 7

Transitional fossil

Answer 7

Any fossilized remains of a life form that exhibits traits common to both an ancestral group and it’s derived descendant group

Question 8

Species

Answer 8

A group of organisms that can reproduce to produce fertile offspring