Paleontology and Primate Origins

Question 1

Study of organisms in the past

Answer 1

paleontology

Question 2

preserved remains, impressions, or traces of past organisms

Answer 2

fossils

Question 3

study of what happens to an individual after death

Answer 3

taphonomy

Question 4

a rock layer

Answer 4

stratum

Question 5

the study of rock layers and the sequence of events they reflect

Answer 5

stratigraphy

Question 6

in a series of sedimentary strata, lower strata are older relative to higher strata

Answer 6

principle of superposition

Question 7

lake deposit

Answer 7

lacustrine

Question 8

river delta

Answer 8

deltaic

Question 9

river

Answer 9

fluvial

Question 10

an important lake deposit in Tanzania with many early hominin fossils

Answer 10

olduvai gorge

Question 11

region made up of porous limestone containing deep fissures, caves, and streams

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karst

Question 12

methods are methods that produces a computed numerical age

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absolute dating

Question 13

dating that provides an order of events

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relative dating

Question 14

dating that is used on fossilized organic material, measures time since death of the organsm, range up to 50k years

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radiocarbon dating

Question 15

dating that is used on rock that has been heated to a high temp

• measures the time since the rock has been heated
• range up to 100k years

Answer 15

potassium argon dating

Question 16

used to relatively date strata

Answer 16

geomagnetic polarity