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Flashcards: Identify events and patterns in the fossil record

Which of the following would NOT be found in the fossil record?

prehistoric fish teeth

the shells and plates of marine creatures

skeletons of large dinosaurs

dinosaur hearts

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Flashcards: Identify events and patterns in the fossil record

Which of the following would NOT be found in the fossil record?

Your answer:

prehistoric fish teeth

Your answer:

the shells and plates of marine creatures

Your answer:

skeletons of large dinosaurs

Correct answer:

dinosaur hearts

Explanation:

The answer is "dinosaur hearts" because hearts are soft body parts and do not fossilize well.

Scientists date and categorize fossils to determine when the organisms lived relative to each other. The resulting fossil record tells the story of the past and shows the evolution of forms over millions of years. Fossils are found in rocks and can be formed from hard parts of organisms, such as bones and shells, but soft parts do not form fossils well and fossils of body parts like feathers are much more rare.

One pattern in the fossil record is the presence of forms with transitional characteristics, arranged in sequential stratigraphic order. This means that the fossil record provides evidence for evolution and it shows tiny changes in the structures of organisms as time moved forward.

Major extinction events and natural disasters such as drought or volcanic eruptions can also be seen in the fossil record. Notably the fossil record has large amounts of iridium in the layer titled The 'K–T Boundary' or 'end Cretaceous event', which marks the extinction of the dinosaurs on land. Scientists believe this extinction was the result of a large meteor striking Earth.

Flashcards: Identify events and patterns in the fossil record

What is the K-T Boundary?

a mass extinction event in the fossil record caused by a meteor

a mass extinction event in the fossil record caused by a volcanic eruption

an explosion in the diversity of dinosaurs caused by an abundance of plant life

an explosion in the diversity of dinosaurs caused by an abundance of water

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Flashcards: Identify events and patterns in the fossil record

What is the K-T Boundary?

Your answer:

a mass extinction event in the fossil record caused by a volcanic eruption

Your answer:

an explosion in the diversity of dinosaurs caused by an abundance of plant life

Your answer:

an explosion in the diversity of dinosaurs caused by an abundance of water

Correct answer:

a mass extinction event in the fossil record caused by a meteor

Explanation:

The answer is "a mass extinction event in the fossil record caused by a meteor."

Scientists date and categorize fossils to determine when the organisms lived relative to each other. The resulting fossil record tells the story of the past and shows the evolution of forms over millions of years. Fossils are found in rocks and can be formed from hard parts of organisms, such as bones and shells, but soft parts do not form fossils well and fossils of body parts like feathers are much more rare.

One pattern in the fossil record is the presence of forms with transitional characteristics, arranged in sequential stratigraphic order. This means that the fossil record provides evidence for evolution and it shows tiny changes in the structures of organisms as time moved forward.

Major extinction events and natural disasters such as drought or volcanic eruptions can also be seen in the fossil record. Notably the fossil record has large amounts of iridium in the layer titled The 'K–T Boundary' or 'end Cretaceous event', which marks the extinction of the dinosaurs on land. Scientists believe this extinction was the result of a large meteor striking Earth.

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