Lab Assessment For Unit 3 Fossil Record
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This is designed to assess how well the students understand the relationship of geologic time periods, fossil record and evolution
- 1.The Devonian Period was called
- A.
The age of oceans
- B.
The age of fishes
- C.
The age of dinosaurs
- D.
The age of corals
- 2.Which of the following would NOT be a possible hypothesis for why horn corals developed that shape as an adaptation:
- A.
To gather more floating food - planktons
- B.
To have more of their surface exposed to sunlight
- C.
To be streamlined so water can flow around them
- D.
To attract another coral to mate with
- 3.Brachiopod fossils have the same body plan as which of the following organisms
- A.
Squid
- B.
Fish
- C.
Clam
- D.
Earth worm
- 4.The word EXTANT means
- A.
Not living any more
- B.
Currently found on the Earth
- C.
Super sized
- D.
Slow
- 5.One possible explanation of why fresh water Devonian fish developed armor plated scales, spines and sharp teeth is because:
- A.
The water temperature got colder during this time
- B.
Their food supply started to fight back
- C.
There were bigger, more aggressive predators
- D.
It looked impressive
- E.
Both B and C
- 6.Which of the following can scientists not learn by studying fossils:
- A.
The body plan of the organism
- B.
The color of the organism
- C.
The time period that the organism lived
- D.
The size of the organism
- 7.There are shark fossils in the shale we see along the Rocky River in the Metroparks. Which of the following best explains how this is possible.
- A.
The continents have always been in the same place, so the oceans must have been deeper and covered Ohio during the time the sharks lived here
- B.
During the time period that the fossils layer was created, the land that is now Ohio was closer to the equator and covered by a warm ocean
- C.
Lake Erie used to be larger and the sharks swam up the St. Lawrence seaway and lived in the lake
- D.
Ice age hunters trapped sharks in the ocean and brought them to Ohio as a food source
- 8.The Megaladon was possibly the size of
- A.
A nuclear submarine
- B.
A Hummer
- C.
A RTA bus
- D.
A typical high school student
- 9.Which of the following is NOT evidence that the continents were connected at different times in the history of the Earth
- A.
Consistent rock layers that can be traced in North America and Europe
- B.
The mid-Atlantic Ridge
- C.
Similar fossil species found on multiple continents
- D.
Pyramids in South America and Egypt
- 10.Which of the following is an example of an organism that has appeared basically unchanged in the fossil record over millions of years
- A.
Human
- B.
Shark
- C.
Sea gull
- D.
Toad
- 11.A series of fossils that span a large time period and show the evolutionary history of one organism are called
- A.
Translation fossils
- B.
Transition fossils
- C.
Transmutation fossils
- D.
Transecting fossils
- 12.How did the climates differ between the Ordovician and the Cretaceous Periods?
- A.
Temperate and Tropical
- B.
Forests and Large Lakes
- C.
Ocean and Dessert
- D.
Global Warming and Global Freezing
- 13.How were our modern coal deposits formed?
- A.
Burning ancient forests
- B.
Plant material falling into swamps over thousands of years
- C.
Plant material accumulating in dry dessert basins
- D.
Animals waste deposits accumulating in early caves
- 14.Which one of the following is not a characteristic of living things?
- A.
Made of cells
- B.
Can reproduce
- C.
Can be a gas
- D.
Can adapt to environmental stimulus
- 15.A type of fossil that researchers can use to identify a time period that the fossil layer was created during is called
- A.
An indicator fossil
- B.
An index fossil
- C.
An inpalinate fossil
- D.
A marker fossil
- 16.We don't have fossils from the Archaen Epoch because the life that existed during this time was probably
- A.
Single celled
- B.
Evaporated
- C.
There was no life
- D.
Buried under layers of molten rock
- 17.Scientists who study fossils are called
- A.
Geobiologists
- B.
Fossilologists
- C.
Paleontologists
- D.
Rockahoundologists
- 18.At one point in the geologic history of the Earth, a giant, supercontinent existed called
- A.
Utopia
- B.
Granwasta
- C.
Euraustamia
- D.
Pangea
- 19.Which of the following would be definite proof that there was a living thing present in a bottle that contains unknown substances.
- A.
CO2 gas being produced
- B.
A temperature change
- C.
Presence of cells when studied under a microscope
- D.
Temperature change
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