| 1) | List four contributions that the study of fossils have made to History of Life. |
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| 2) | What is the chemical make up of the following hard parts of organisms? |
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| | A) Vertebrate bone |
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| | B) Clam shell |
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| | C) Diatoms |
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| 3) | What processes can destroy a fossil that has survived millions of years in rocks and is buried deep below the surface? |
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| 4) | What is amber? What types of fossils are commonly preserved in it? |
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| 5) | Do the La Brea Tar Pits contain an unbiased sample of a fossil community? Why or why not? |
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| 6) | Name two reasons why the Burgess Shale is a unique fossil assemblage. |
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| 7) | Match the person with a contribution to the study of geology. |
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A. Nicolas Steno
B. William Smith
C. Georges Cuvier
D. James Hutton
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1. present is key to the past
2. fossils represent extinct organisms
3. rock layers represent time
4. fossils limited to distinct rock layers
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| 8) | What are trace fossils? |
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| 9) | Match the following process with a likely outcome. |
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A. Predation
B. Diagenesis
C. Collection
D. Event-related death
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1. complete skeletal perservation
2. broken fossils
3. recrystalization
4. loss of environmental data
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| 10) | What is the most likely record of an ancient octopus? |
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