Science test

Question 1

what type of fossils are the overwhelming majority of fossils

Answer 1

marine organisms

Question 2

a fossilzed track or burrow made by an animal would be called a trace fossil

Answer 2

true

Question 3

one possible reaons for the variety of speacies in the la brea tar pits is that once animals died there scavengers came were trapped and died there as well

Answer 3

true

Question 4

fossils can be found only in sedimentary rocks

Answer 4

false

Question 5

what process forms petrified wood

Answer 5

replacemtn

Question 6

which of these is a porpoise lik emarine reptile archaeoteryx ichthyosaurus

Answer 6

ichtyyosaurus

Question 7

which of thse if fossilzed would be considered microfossils animal droppings pine needls plant spores

Answer 7

plant spores

Question 8

decay can prevent a dead orgaims form bieing fossilzed

Answer 8

true

Question 9

the classification system used for fossils is the sma eon e used for living oragnaims today

Answer 9

true

Question 10

is a mineraliazed form of tree sap and may contain invertebartes ad evn some small vertebrates

Answer 10

amber

Question 11

fossils that seem to appear reliably in the proper geologic sequence and that are used by secular geologists to determine the age of rock starat are called what

Answer 11

index fossils

Question 12

what remarkable discovery came form the examination of a thigh bone of a 68 million year old t rex fossil in 2005

Answer 12

soft tissues

Question 13

what is the name of the study of fossils

Answer 13

paleontolgist

Question 14

fossils often appear out of order in the geolgic column

Answer 14

true

Question 15

the origin of species was authored in 1859 by who

Answer 15

chalres darwin

Question 16

who develped the styem used today to classify organims

Answer 16

carolus linnaeus

Question 17

old earth geologists assign rocks in lower level scoantin simple fossil _____ ages than those ones coanting complex fossils

Answer 17

older

Question 18

what is the name of an extint fossil fish that was found to still be alive

Answer 18

a coelacanth

Question 19

fossils showing organims that are in the process of evolving form one form to another are known as what

Answer 19

transitional forms

Question 20

what is said to be the link between reptiles and birds

Answer 20

archaeopteryx

Question 21

if archaeopteryx were found alive today it would most likely be calssified as a what

Answer 21

bird

Question 22

when the population of a species begins to shrink due to having more deaths than births in a generation it is possibly headed toaward what

Answer 22

extinction

Question 23

evolutinary scientsis have identified two major extinctio events in teh las 500 million years by studying the geologic column

Answer 23

false

Question 24

which of thse is asquid like naimal with coilded chambered shell ammonite ichthyosaus

Answer 24

ammonite

Question 25

those who take the bible at ists word and blieve in a arecent creatio would assume that humans and dions must have bee on the aearth at the same time

Answer 25

true

Question 26

what was the possible identity of jobs behemoth

Answer 26

brachiosaurs

Question 27

all of ht efollowin statements would be accceptable to a youn earth paleontolgists except which one fossils found in the sam elayer cam from orgaisms from the sma habiat or volcaniceruptions probably accompaneid the folood and realease ash

Answer 27

fossisl found in the same layer cam from orgaims fom the sam habitat

Question 28

what is the name of small extinct marine invertebrates

Answer 28

trilobites

Question 29

a fossil is defined as any reamins or trace of a formely living thing preserved by natural processes

Answer 29

true

Question 30

when was the earlies t heitocial record of the usee of any fossil fuel

Answer 30

1,000 BC

Question 31

fossil fuels do not include what coal hydrothermal fluies petroleum

Answer 31

hydrothermal fluieds

Question 32

which type of coal has the most envergy

Answer 32

bituminous

Question 33

it is possible for undergound coal seams to buen ot of contaroll for years

Answer 33

ture

Question 34

the hardes and cleasnest burning coal is _______

Answer 34

anthracite

Question 35

nautal gas is almost always foudn along with _____

Answer 35

cude oil

Question 36

petrolum is ma up of hydrocarbons wihcih contain some combintaiton of ntirogen and carbon

Answer 36

false

Question 37

methan ehtan andp propane are fifferent forms of what

Answer 37

nautral gas

Question 38

nealy half of elcetical power plants in the untied states use what typye of fuel

Answer 38

coal

Question 39

which of thse is obatined by drillin g coal or oil

Answer 39

oil`

Question 40

which of thse shows the most likely order of devleopment of thse materails peat to lignite to bituminous coal or peat to bituminous coal to lignite

Answer 40

peat to lignite to bituminous coal

Question 41

products that conatin colal includ epaints perumes rubber and plactic

Answer 41

ture

Question 42

what is aiogicn oil

Answer 42

nautrally produced petroleum that does not come from organic sources

Question 43

carbon doxiede a product of the combustion of fossisl fuels has been linked to glowbal warming and s as a relut has been called a _____________ gas

Answer 43

green house