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Fossil footprints Quiz Biology

Fossil footprints Quiz Biology

Trace fossils include footprints, trails, burrows, feeding marks, and resting marks. Trace fossils provide information about the organism that is not revealed by body fossils

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The idea that geologic changes happen gradually over time.

Paleontology
Uniformitarianism
Catastrophism
None of the above

The idea that younger rocks lie above older rocks.

Unconformity
Relative dating
Superposition
Geologic column

Which of the following is NOT a type of unconformity:

Singular unconformity
Nonconformity
Angular unconformity
Disconformity

A detailed series of rock layers that contains all the known fossils and rock formations on Earth.

Superposition
Geologic column
Relative dating
Angular unconformity

Figuring out whether a rock layer is older or younger than the layers around it.

Absolute dating
Superposition
Relative dating
Blind dating

This happens when a radioactive isotope breaks down into a new isotope.

Absolute dating
Radioactive dating
Radioactive decay
Disconformity

Isotopes are atoms of an element that have different numbers of:

Protons
Electrons
Molecules
Neutrons

Finding the exact age of an object is called:

Relative dating
Geologic dating
Half-life
Absolute dating

The time required for half of a sample of a radioactive isotope to break down by radioactive decay to form a daughter isotope.

Geologic column
Half-life
Absolute dating
Absolute age

Another name for a radioactive isotope:

Parent isotope
Daughter isotope
Son isotope
Grandmother isotope

A radioactive isotope is stable.

True
False

Older rocks lie above younger rocks.

True
False

Catastrophism is the idea that geologic change happens suddenly.

True
False

A paleobotanist studies fossilized insects.

True
False

Animals take in Carbon-14 by eating plants.

True
False
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