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Vocabulary.: $100 What are objects that are traces or remains of living things from long ago? Fossils Get Answer

Vocabulary:$200 What is a solid model in the shape of the organism? Casts Get Answer

Vocabulary: $300 What is the age of an event or object in relation to other events or objects? Relative Age Get Answer

Vocabulary: $400 What is the fossils of organisms that were common, that lived in many areas, and that existed only during a certain span of time? Index Fossil Get Answer

Vocabulary: $500 What is the length of time it takes for half of the atoms in a sample of a radioactive element to change from an unstable form to another form? Half-life Get Answer

D.O.S.: $100 In Antarctica, scientists study environmental changes that occurred over thousands of years by taking? Ice cores Get Answer

D.O.S.: $200 The body of a small insect is found preserved in amber. What is this body an example of? Original remains Get Answer

D.O.S.: $300 What is often used with igneous rocks to determine their age in years? Radioactive dating Get Answer

D.O.S.: $400 By studying the carbon 14 levels of the original remains of a saber-toothed cat, scientists have determined the ____ of this cat to be 20,000 years old. Absolute age Get Answer

D.O.S.: $500 Why don’t igneous rocks contain fossils? The high temperatures of the molten rock from which the igneous rock forms destroys any trace of plants or animals. Get Answer

Potluck: $100 Trace Fossil Get Answer A fossil of a dinosaur’s footprint is an example of a ______ ?

Potluck: $200 Ice Core Get Answer What a tubular sample that shows the layers that have built up over thousands of years hence giving the a vertical timeline of Earth?

Potluck: 300 amber Get Answer What forms from resin, a sticky substance inside trees that flows like syrup and protects the trees by trapping insects?

Potluck:400 How is petrified wood created? Over time, water passes through sediments and into trees cells. Minerals that carried in the water take the place of cells, producing a stone likeness. Get Answer

Potluck:$500 What are original remains? Fossils that are the actual bodies or body parts of organisms. Get Answer

PowerPoint: $100. Paleontologists Get Answer Who are scientists who study fossils?

PowerPoint: $200 Name 3 of the 5 types of fossils. Get Answer Petrified fossils Molds and casts Carbon films Trace fossils Original remains

PowerPoint: $300 What is a carbon film? Get Answer Carbon film is an extremely thin coating of carbon on rock

PowerPoint: $400 What numbered layer of sedimentary rock is probably the oldest? 2 Get Answer

PowerPoint: $500 Which numbered rock layers are younger than the igneous intrusion layer? Layer 1 does not cut through layers 5 and 6 indicating that they were deposited after the intrusion occurred. Get Answer

How Fossils are made: $100 What are sedimentary rocks formed from sand deposits? sandstone Get Answer

How Fossils are made: $200 What is a type of sedimentary rock formed from deposits of shells? limestone Get Answer

How fossils are made: $300 Aquatic animals What type of animal is the most likely to be preserved? Get Answer

How Fossils are made: $400 Petrified wood is what type of wood? permineralized Get Answer

How Fossils are made: $500 Where would one find mummified remains of plants and animals? Hot arid locations Get Answer

Final Jeopardy Get Answer What should I be studying for the test? 1. DoS questions 2.Vocabulary 3.Reread chapter 9 4.How fossils are made worksheet 5.Power point notes