7th Science - Ch 6

What do we call the record of all the fossils ever found on earth?

• Fossil List

• Fossil Record

• Animal Record

• Evolution List

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Match the type of fossil with its description.

• Molds and Casts

• An impression of an organism is made and hardens in sediment. Other sediment can fill it in an form a copy of the organism's external features.

• Original Material

• Actual tissues of an organism are preserved.

• Carbonization

• Rock-forming minerals like calcium in water replace an organisms original material and hardens into rock.

• Mineralization

• Preserved evidence of the activity of an organism (like a foot print).

• Trace Fossils

• An organism is compressed over time and pressure drives off the organism's liquids and gases.

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Age is determined by the order of the rock layers.

• Absolute-Age Dating

• Relative-Age Dating

• Fossil Dating

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Age is determined by ratios of radioactive isotopes.

• Absolute-Age Dating

• Relative-Age Dating

• Fossil Dating

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

What do we call it when the last individual organism of a species dies?

• Absolute Death

• Endangered

• Extinction

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

When the fossils of a species show up in one rock layer, but not in the layer above it, what does it mean?

• New species

• Extinct species

• Species evolved

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Charles Darwin was a ...

• biologist

• naturalist

• geneticist

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Darwin noticed differences in which of these animals?

• tortoises

• elephants

• lizards

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Darwin noticed differences in ...

• mockingbirds and finches

• eagles and vultures

• woodpeckers and sparrows

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

What differences did Darwin observe in tortoises?

• leg length

• teeth length

• neck length

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2