Fossils Ch 11

An overwhelming majority of fossils are...

• Dinosaurs

• missing links

• Marine (ocean) organisms

• Vertebrates

Petrified wood forms by a process called:

• Casting

• Compression

• Permineralization

• Replacement

Ammonites were similar in some ways to living:

• starfish

• squid/octopi

• porpoises/dolphins

• sharks

Which of these, if fossilized, would be considered microfossils?

• animal droppings

• exoskeletons

• plants pores

• all of these

Which of the following substances commonly contain fossils?

• amber

• magma

• liquid water

• all of the above

Scientists use ____________ _____________ to determine the age of certain rock strata

• index fossils

• intermediate species

• missing links

• polystrate fossils

What remarkable discovery came from the examination of a supposedly 68-million-year-old T-rex fossil in 2005?

• DNA

• prehistoric bacteria

• soft tissue

• stone arrowhead

What is the name for the study of fossils?

• archaeology

• paleology

• paleontology

• petrology

Who developed the system used today to classify organisms?

• Charles Darwin

• Carolus Linnaeus

• Charles Lyell

• None of the above

Fossils supposedly showing organisms in the process of evolving from one form to another are called

• index fossils

• microfossils

• transitional forms

• none of these