Chapter 11 Review pt.3

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An overwhelming majority of fossils are

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marine (ocean) organisms.

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Petrified wood forms by a process called

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replacement.

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Which of these, if fossilized, would be considered microfossils?
Options: animal droppings, exoskeletons, plant spores, all of these

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plant spores

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Fossils that seem to appear reliably in the proper geologic sequence and that are used by secular geologists to determine the age of rock strata are called

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index fossils.

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What remarkable discovery came from the examination of a thigh bone of a 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex fossil in 2005?

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soft tissues

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What is the name for the study of fossils?

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paleontology

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Who developed the system used today to classify organisms?

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Linnaeus

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Fossils showing organisms that are in the process of evolving from one form to another are known as

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transitional forms.

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When the population of a species begins to shrink due to having more deaths than births in a generation, it is possibly headed toward

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extinction.

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All the following statements would be acceptable to a young-earth paleontologist except which one? A. Most fossil-bearing sedimentary rocks came from the Flood. B. Volcanic eruptions probably accompanied the Flood and released ash. C. Birds were killed and buried later in the Flood event than amphibians were. D. Fossils found in the same layer came from organisms from the same habitat.

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