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Topics 8-10 Flashcards

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What are original remains?

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A type of fossil in which all or part of the organism is preserved

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What is a trace fossil?

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A type of fossil in which evidence of animal activity has been preserved

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What is a cavity in rock left when the hard parts of an organism dissolve?

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Mould

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What is produced when sediments fill in the cavity?

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Cast

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On the geologic time scale, what are the three eras?

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Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Paleozoic

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What are oil, natural gas, and coal examples of?

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Fossil fuels

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What was the earliest supercontinent?

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Rodinia

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What can be used to determine the relative age of strata?

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Index fossil

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What are the layers of rock also called?

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Strata

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Radiocarbon dating use carbon as its parent material to find the age of fossils, bones, and wood that are up to how old?

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50 000 years

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For the first billion years of earth’s history, how much fossil evidence was there?

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Very little

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What is bitumen?

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A heavy, almost solid form of petroleum

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What is Oil formed from?

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Animal & plant remains

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What do relative, radiometric, and radiocarbon dating provide information about?

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The age of strata

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Why doesn’t fossil evidence exist for all living organisms?

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The conditions to form a fossil are very specific

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Are radiometric in radiocarbon dating both examples of absolute dating?

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Yes

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What are three ways that oil and natural gas can be trapped?

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Thrust fault, normal fault, reef

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What is each particle of oil sand coated with?

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A layer of water and a film of bitumen

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On the geologic time scale, is Cambrian a period?

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Yes

20
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What type of fossil occurs when an organism is buried under many layers, causing sediment, pressure, and heat to build up and leave a thin film of carbon residue on rock surfaces?

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Carbonaceous film

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