Ch. 11 Earth Science

Evolutionists believe that 2 major extinction events happened 500 million years ago.

What type of fossil is a track?

Paleontology is the study of evolution.

How is coal formed?

The archaeopteryx was believed to be a transitional form.

Greenhouse gases are helpful to the stewardship of earth.

What type of fossil is a wooly mammoth in ice?

Fossils found in the same layer came from organisms in the same habitat.

What do we call remains or traces of formerly living things preserved by natural processes.

95% of fossils are dinosaurs.

Index fossils are unreliable in their sequences in the geologic column.

Methane is a form of natural gas.

Electrical power plants are fueled by crude oil.

Fossils can be found in igneous rock but it is rare because it would usually burn up.

Why don't dead animal carcasses last long enough to fossilize ?

Soft tissue was discovered in thigh bone of T-rex.

What type of fossil leaves an empty encasement?

What type of coal has the most carbon?

Fossils are occasionally found in metamorphic rock.

How do we have detailed fossils that supply impressions of cells?

Young earth and Old earth geologist agree on the order of things in the geologic column.

The system created by Carolus Linneaus for classifying organisms is still used today.

What can fossils tell us?

What kind of fossil does replacement form?