Quiz 13 chap 5 pp 146-153

Question 1

Animals and plants that disappear abruptly from the fossil record, yet are still alive today, are known as ___________

Answer 1

living fossils

Question 2

When continuous strata are missing one or more layers, the gap is called an _______

Answer 2

unconformity

Question 3

The foundation of Darwin’s hypothesis was _________

Answer 3

natural selection

Question 4

_______ suggests that new kinds of organisms came about over a short period of time and then remained unchanged for a long time

Answer 4

Punctuated equilibrium

Question 5

The sudden appearance of animals in the fossil record is the _________

Answer 5

Cambrian explosion

Question 6

supposed transitional form between amphibians and reptiles now recognized as 100% amphibian

Answer 6

Seymouria

Question 7

bird considered a ‘‘missing link’’ between reptiles and birds

Answer 7

Archaeopteryx

Question 8

another name for transitional forms or ‘‘missing links’’

Answer 8

intermediates

Question 9

a supposedly extinct lobe-finned fish that was discovered alive in 1938

Answer 9

coelacanth

Question 10

an organism that shows no change between its appearance in the fossil record and at the present day

Answer 10

stasis