Earth Science Chapter 11? Test Review

Half of the electric plants in the U.S. run on

When a simple fossil is found in a lower rock strata it is assigned a ___ age

The study of fossils

Never Back Down; Never ___

Natural gasses are obtained by drilling

Coal cannot be metamorphic

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What was discovered from a Tyranasaurus fossil in 2005

A leaf film a piece of slate

Most fossils are ____ organism

Oil reserves found under the rock strata

Fossils that show evolution from one creature into another are transitional fossils

Natural gas is often found with crude oil(Petroleum)

Fossil fuels include hydrothermal fluids

A fossilized dinosaur egg

Petrified wood forms from

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It would be a major inconvenience to stop burning Petroleum

The collection of fossils found in asphalt traps provide an idea of the organisms that lived in that area

Until recently Secular paleontologists believed soft tissue could not be found in fossil

Today the carcasses of dead animals most likely will

The same classification system used to classify fossils also is used for living creatures

Carbon Dioxide is called a

Which contains fossils

A fossilized pollen grain

Animal shaped cavity in volcanic ash

An insect stuck in amber

A fossilized trylabite that has been mineralized

A human skeleton trapped in ice

Animals can be fossilized when only exposed to air

Shell compacted into rock

Developed the system used to classify organisms

When a species's population declines due to more deaths than birth

Coal is not an organic igneous rock

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