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Rock and Fossil Jeopardy
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Types of Fossils Geologic Time Rock Dating Disturbances Random Stuff
Final Jeopardy
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©Norman Herr, 2003
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A-100
• ANSWER: This type of fossil is useful when the known organism only lived for a short, well-defined time period
• QUESTION: What is an index fossil?
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A-200
• ANSWER: This type of fossil is the cavity that is left from a buried plat or animal
• QUESTION: What is a mold?
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A-300
• ANSWER: This type of trace fossil would tell us what type of diet an organism had.
• QUESTION: What is a coprolite?
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A-400
• ANSWER: This fossil forming process would preserve organisms because water is not present and bacteria cannot eat away at the organism
• QUESTION: What is mummification?
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A-500
• ANSWER: This process has minerals filling in pore spaces of an organism’s dead tissues
• QUESTION: What is permineralization?
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• ANSWER: This is the largest division of geologic time
• QUESTION: What is an eon?
B-100
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B-200
• ANSWER: This is the smallest division of geologic time
• QUESTION: What is an epoch?
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B-300
• ANSWER: Eons are broken up into smaller periods of time known as these
• QUESTION: What is an era?
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B-400
• ANSWER: Eras are broken up into smaller divisions of time known as these
• QUESTION: What are periods?
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B-500
• ANSWER: This is the most recent era in the geologic time scale
• QUESTION: What is the Cenozoic?
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C-100
• ANSWER: The process of stable isotopes being broken down and changing into other elements
• QUESTION: What is radioactive decay?
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C-200
• ANSWER: The form of rock or fossil “dating” does not give an exact age
• QUESTION: What is relative dating?
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C-300
• ANSWER: This is the number of half-lives a radioactive sample would have gone through if 1/8 of the original material is still present
• QUESTION: What is 3?
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C-400
• ANSWER: This would be the number of half-lives a sample would have gone through if ¼ of the original material is present
• QUESTION: What is 2?
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C-500
• ANSWER: The type of rock or fossil “dating” that gives a more accurate age is known as this
• QUESTION: What is Absolute dating?
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D-100
• ANSWER: The principle that tells us younger rocks are on top of older rocks is this
• QUESTION: What is superposition?
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D-200
• ANSWER: The type of disturbance caused by magma cutting through layers of rock and cooling
• QUESTION: What is an intrusion?
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D-300
• ANSWER: The type of rock disturbance that occurs when plates slip past one another and layers slide above other layers
• QUESTION: What is a fault?
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D-400
• ANSWER: This type of geologic disturbance bends rock layers without breaking them
• QUESTION: What is folding?
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D-500
• ANSWER: The type of rock disturbance creates a missing layer of rock in the geologic column
• QUESTION: What is an unconformity?
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E-100
• ANSWER: The belief that sudden changes create geologic processes
• QUESTION: What is catastrophism?
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E-200
• ANSWER: The belief that the Earth changes the same now as it did in the past
• QUESTION: What is uniformitarianism?
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E-300
• ANSWER: This is a process where water or wind is cutting away at rock layers
• QUESTION: What is erosion?
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E-400
• ANSWER: The process in which sediments are no longer creating rock layers for a period of time
• QUESTION: What is nondeposition?
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E-500
• ANSWER: This Era is known as the age of reptiles
• QUESTION: What is the mesozoic
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FINAL JEOPARDY
• ANSWER: This era had no known land animals
• QUESTION: What is the paleozoic