Earth's History: Fossils

Question 1

Evidence of Pangea can be seen by the way fossils are now distributed on Earth's surface

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

Which of the following is a list of trace fossils?

Accepted Answer

burrows, tracks, animal dung

Question 3

What happens when an organism's tissue is replaced by minerals?

Accepted Answer

Petrification

Question 4

Scientist study the widths of tree rings to learn about past climates.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

Geologic process that happened in the past can be explained by current geologic processes.

Accepted Answer

Uniformitarianism

Question 6

Fossils that are used to estimate absolute age of the rock in which they are found.

Accepted Answer

Index Fossil

Question 7

Where are the best preserved insects usually found?

Accepted Answer

trapped in amber

Question 8

What can be used to estimate the absolute ages of some sedimentary rocks?

Accepted Answer

index fossils

Question 9

What can be used to fins absolute ages of igneous rocks? Using radioactive decay.

Accepted Answer

radiometric dating

Question 10

What states younger rocks are above older rocks?

Accepted Answer

superposition

Question 11

Which of the following is NOT a way sedimentary rock layers are disturbed?

Accepted Answer

igneous

Question 12

To be an index fossil, the organism must have lived for a short period.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 13

Determining actual age of an event or object

Accepted Answer

Absolute Dating

Question 14

A fossil that formed in sedimentary rock by animal activity on or in soft sediment.

Accepted Answer

Trace Fossil

Question 15

This describes the weather conditions in an area over a long period of time.

Accepted Answer

Climate

Question 16

Besides fossils, what can we analyze to study Earth's climate and environmental changes?

Accepted Answer

trees, sea-floor, sediment, ice

Question 17

Determining whether an object or event is older or younger than other objects and events.

Accepted Answer

Relative Dating

Question 18

What is the name of the giant, single landmass called

Accepted Answer

Pangea

Question 19

Tall jagged mountains are older than rounded, smaller mountains

Accepted Answer

False

Question 20

a geologic column is an ordered arrangement of rocks with the oldest at the bottom

Accepted Answer

True

Question 21

What are the trace or remains of an organism that lived long ago called?

Accepted Answer

Fossils

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