Fossils
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- Q1What are the three characteristics of index fossils?Abundant and widely distributed, short period of time, and tell the relative age of rock layers.30s
- Q2How do fossils form?A fossil forms when sediment covers it, more sediments covers the fossil and layers, then the movement of tectonic plates lifts up the fossil to the Earth’s surface, and erosion from rain reveals the fossil on the rock.30s
- Q3Asian elephants used to roam from Iran to Southern Asia. What is the reason the Asian elephants are almost extinct?Loss of habitat30s
- Q4What is the main cause of the extinction of mammoths?Climate change30s
- Q5What is a fossil?Preserved remains of a once-living organism30s
- Q6What are the three things that fossils can tell us?How long life existed on Earth, past organisms, where they were located.30s
- Q7What is a mold and cast fossil?Mold is an imprint of an organism and the cast is when the mold is filled in with sediments, water, and they harden.30s
- Q8What is a petrified fossil?A dead organism that turns into stone.30s
- Q9What are the three ways that an organism can be Preserved?Amber, tar, ice30s
- Q10True or False? Examples of trace fossils are footprints, animal holes, and feces.True30s
- Q11True or False? The law of superposition states that the oldest rock is on the top.False30s
- Q12True or False? Sediment accumulates vertically to the Earth’s surface.False30s
- Q13True or False? Relative age is the age of something compared to other things.True30s
- Q14True or False? Unconformity is the gaps between incomplete rock sequences.True30s
- Q15True or False? Nonconformity exists where sedimentary rock lies on the top of an eroded surface such as Sedimentary or igneous.False30s