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LET’S PLAY JEOPARDY!!
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VocabularyD.O.S.PotluckPowerPoint How Fossils are Made $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 Final Jeopardy
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Vocabulary.: $100 What are objects that are traces or remains of living things from long ago? Fossils Get Answer
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Vocabulary:$200 What is a solid model in the shape of the organism? Casts Get Answer
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Vocabulary: $300 What is the age of an event or object in relation to other events or objects? Relative Age Get Answer
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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
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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
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D.O.S.: $100 In Antarctica, scientists study environmental changes that occurred over thousands of years by taking? Ice cores Get Answer
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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
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D.O.S.: $300 What is often used with igneous rocks to determine their age in years? Radioactive dating Get Answer
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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
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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
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Potluck: $100 Trace Fossil Get Answer A fossil of a dinosaur’s footprint is an example of a ______ ?
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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?
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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?
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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
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Potluck:$500 What are original remains? Fossils that are the actual bodies or body parts of organisms. Get Answer
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PowerPoint: $100. Paleontologists Get Answer Who are scientists who study fossils?
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PowerPoint: $200 Name 3 of the 5 types of fossils. Get Answer Petrified fossils Molds and casts Carbon films Trace fossils Original remains
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PowerPoint: $300 What is a carbon film? Get Answer Carbon film is an extremely thin coating of carbon on rock
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PowerPoint: $400 What numbered layer of sedimentary rock is probably the oldest? 2 Get Answer
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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
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How Fossils are made: $100 What are sedimentary rocks formed from sand deposits? sandstone Get Answer
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How Fossils are made: $200 What is a type of sedimentary rock formed from deposits of shells? limestone Get Answer
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How fossils are made: $300 Aquatic animals What type of animal is the most likely to be preserved? Get Answer
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How Fossils are made: $400 Petrified wood is what type of wood? permineralized Get Answer
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How Fossils are made: $500 Where would one find mummified remains of plants and animals? Hot arid locations Get Answer
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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
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