Science Olympiad Fossils Division B 2015 4 – Test/Game

Flash Cards Instructions Divide the work between team members Check each others work Work on the fossils assign to your team Use the sample flash cards posted to the schools Science Olympiad web site under the Fossil event. Sample Files are: FlashCardsFusulinidsNummulites.ppt FlashCardsHemichordataMucrospirifer.pptx Save your flash card files using this name: FlashCardsName of FossileName of Fossil Example is: FlashCardsFusulinidsNummulites.ppt For Fossil pictures start with these 3 files loaded on the school Science Olympiad web site 2009-Fossil-Poster.pdf 2009-Fossil-Notes-B.pdf 2009-Fossil-Notes-B2.pdf Another good source is: Web Site: http://scioly.org/wiki/index.php/Fossil_List

Fossils in the News Joseph Groenke/Stony Brook University/AP                                                                                                                                            Joseph Groenke/Stony Brook University/AP View Caption Madagascar, long known for an bizarre assortment of dinosaurs and early mammals, has yielded up another unusual creature – one that could help researchers figure out how long mammals truly have trod the Earth. An international team of scientists has uncovered a virtually complete skull of an animal they've named Vintana sertichi. Its traits place it within a group of mammals known as Gondwanatheria. The new specimen hails from rock formations in northwestern Madagascar that date to between 72 million and 66 million years ago, toward the end of the Cretaceous and the reign of dinosaurs. V. sertichi's skull measures just under 5 inches long, leading the team to estimate that the rodent-like animal weighed about 20 pounds – the largest mammal yet found from the Mesozoic period on what once was Gondwana and the second largest mammal from the Mesozoic worldwide.

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Test/Game Answer Answer is: B - Mold This picture shows what type of a fossil: A - Cast B - Mold C - Trace Answer Answer is: B - Mold

Casts and Molds Fossils can be in the form of Casts or Molds

Test/Game Answer Answer is: C - Middle Cambrian What time period did this sea creature live: A - Jurassic B - Late Ordovician C - Middle Cambrian D - Neoarchean Paradoxides Answer Answer is: C - Middle Cambrian

Test/Game Find the Trilobite section in your book. Find the Trilobite Look for the “Range” Paradoxides

Test/Game Answer Answer is: B - Eon, Era, Period, Epoch, Age What is the correct relationship of Time period names: A - Epoch, Era, Period, Eon, Age B - Eon, Era, Period, Epoch, Age C - Period, Cambrian, Era, Epoch D - Eon, Period, Era, Epoch, Age Answer Answer is: B - Eon, Era, Period, Epoch, Age

Test/Game How many Eons are there: Answer Answer is: 4

Test/Game What are the names of the 4 Eons: A - Hadean, Phanerozoic, Proterozoic, Archean B - Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Paleozoic C - Hadean, Paleozoic, Proterozoic, Archean D - Mesozoic, Phanerozoic, Proterozoic, Archean Answer Answer is: A - Hadean, Phanerozoic, Proterozoic, Archean

4th EON named Phanerozoic   3 EONS

Test/Game Answer Answer is: D - Things that are dug up The word fossil comes from the Latin word fossilis, which means: A - Meaning to floss ones teeth B - Referring to false bones C - Means old D - Things that are dug up Answer Answer is: D - Things that are dug up

Test/Game Answer Answer is: Option 3 What is the mode of Preservation? Permineralization Petrifiction Tar Amber Frozen Option 2 Amber Frozen Tar Petrifiction Permineralization B Option 3 Amber Frozen Tar Permineralization Petrifiction C D Answer Answer is: Option 3 E

Test/Game Answer Answer is: C - Cretaceous Which Epoch is not associated with the age of Mammals: A - Oligocene E - Eocene B - Paleocene C - Cretaceous D - Miocene Answer Answer is: C - Cretaceous

Test/Game Answer Answer is: B - Carboniferous Which Epoch is associated with the age of Amphibians: A - Jurassic B - Carboniferous C - Pliocene D - Miocene Answer Answer is: B - Carboniferous

Ages of Geological Time Era Period or Epoch Age  Cenozoic Pleistocene Age of Man Pliocene Miocene Oligocene Age of Mammals Eocene Paleocene Mesozoic Cretaceous Jurassic Age of Reptiles Triassic  Paleozoic Permian Carboniferous Age of Amphibians Devonian Silurian Age of Fishes Ordovician Cambrian Age of Sea Life  

Test/Game Answer A B C Answer is: 2 - B, A, C From oldest to Youngest list these fossils. 1 - A, B, C 2 - B, A, C 3 - C, A, B A B Answer Answer is: 2 - B, A, C C

Test/Game Crinoids Dimerocrinites Silurian-Devonian Ophiuroidea Paleocoma or Brittle Star E. Jurassic Archaeopteryx - Late Jurassic Lived, in what is now southern Germany during a time when Europe was an archipelago of islands in a shallow warm tropical sea, much closer to the equator than it is now. A genus of early bird that is transitional between feathered dinosaurs and modern birds. The name derives from the ancient Greek ἀρχαῖος (archaīos) meaning "ancient", and πτέρυξ (ptéryx), meaning "feather" or "wing".

Test/Game Answer B B A Answer is: A- Conus B - Platyceras Identify these two fossils. B B A Answer Answer is: A- Conus B - Platyceras

Test/Game A B Identify these two fossils. Fossils of Conus have been recovered from the Late Cretaceous – to Recent A Platyceras is a genus of extinct Paleozoic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Platyceratidae. This genus is known from the Silurian to Early Carboniferous periods. has distinctive shape that is easily recognized. The cap-like shell is high and broad anteriorly. The posterior portion of the shell, at the apex, is usually slightly coiled in an asymmetrical fashion. B

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