Fossils
Earth’s Beginning
Age and Eras
Classification
Taxonomy
Miscellaneous
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Any evidence of an organism that lived long ago.
Fossil
The aging of a fossil by looking at what rock layer it is found in is called?
Relative Dating
What type of rock are fossils usually found in?
Sedimentary
The aging of a fossil by using a radioactive isotope.
Radiometric Dating
Scientists that studies fossils are called?
Paleontologists
Earth is thought to be how old?
4.6 Billion Years Ago
Early earth’s oceans were called what?
Primordial Soup
Early earth’s atmosphere was made of.
Hydrogen, water vapor, ammonia, methane
When was it that life was thought to have formed on the earth?
3.5 billion years ago
Earth’s first forms of life were thought to be what type of cells.
Prokaryotes & Heterotroph
What era has the oldest evidence of live?
Precambrian
Photosynthesizing prokaryotes released this into early earth’s atmosphere.
Oxygen
What era are we living in?
Cenozoic
What era saw the evolution of worms and arthropods at the beginning?
Paleozoic
The era the Dinosaurs roamed the earth.
Mesozoic
Who divided everything up in to 2 groups, either plants or animals?
Aristotle
Organisms who have cells walls made of cellulose belong to what kingdom?
Plantae
What was the type of classification that Linnaeus come up with?
Binomial nomenclature
What language is used for scientific name and give one reason why it is used?
Latin & 1.Language is dead 2.The words don’t change 3.Words only have one meaning
What kingdoms make up the domain eukarya
Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia
A group of closely related species
Genus
It is a group of closely related phyla.
Kingdom
In the name Pimpheles notatus what is the genus name?
Pimpheles
What are the 8 categories of classifying an organism? IN ORDER
Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
Rewrite the following name using the correct scientific technique: Animalia, chordata, Mammalia, primata, Hominidae, homo, sapien
animalia, chordata, mammalia, primata, hominidae, Homo, sapien
A type of calendar that allows scientists to communicate about events that have occurred on earth is called what?
Geologic Time Scale
What are 3 reasons that Latin is used for classifying organisms.
1. Language is no longer used 2. Language is dead or doesn’t change. 3. The words only have one meaning.
A set of pair statements used to identify a particular organism is called?
Dichotomous Key
Evolutionary relationships among organisms is called?
Phylogeny
A branching diagram showing evolutionary relationships is called?
Cladogram