1. Science Olympiad Fossils Division B 2015 4 – Test/Game

2. 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:

3. Fossils in the News Joseph Groenke/Stony Brook University/AP
                                                                                                                                          
Joseph Groenke/Stony Brook University/AP
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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.

4. Start of Game

5. 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

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

7. 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

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

9. 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

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

11. 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

12. 4th EON named Phanerozoic
3 EONS

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

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

19. 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".

20. 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

21. 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

22. Questions ?

23. Next Week’s Topics?
Index Fossils