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Ch 6 - Environment and Change Over Time
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- Q1the millions of fossils that scientists have collectedfossil record30s
- Q2A fossil formed when an organism buried in sediment dissolves, leaving a hollow area.mold30s
- Q3a fossil copy of an organism in a rockcast30s
- Q4a fossil of a footprint, trail, burrow, or other trace of an animal rather than of the animal itself.trace fossil30s
- Q5the categories of time into which Earth's history is usually divided by geologists and paleontologists: eons, eras, periods, epochsGeological Time Scale (GTS)30s
- Q6A term that typically describes a species that no longer has any known living individuals.extinction30s
- Q7the process whereby earth's life changes over time through changes in the genes of populationsbiological evolution30s
- Q8A person who studies plants and animals by observing themnaturalist30s
- Q9English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882)Darwin30s
- Q10A process in which individuals that have certain inherited traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of those traits.natural selection30s
- Q11Minerals in the water replace the organism's original material and harden into rockMineralization30s
- Q12organic matter becomes a thin residue of carbonCarbonization Fossil30s
- Q13Atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutronsIsotopes30s
- Q14any method of determining whether an event or object is older or younger than other events or objectsrelative dating30s
- Q15A technique used to determine the actual age of a fossilabsolute dating30s