Paleontology Chapter 11 Review

During the Ice Age or after the flood

Because fossils show us things that lived on Earth when it was different than it is now

Petrified fossils

<p>A microfossil is less than about 1 mm in size</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Decay, be eaten, dry out, freeze, or end up in an oxygen-free environment; decay is the most common</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because it will still have soft tissue and fine impressions of skin details in the rock</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sedimentary rocks</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Amber and ice</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They say that soft tissue can last for longer than they thought possible</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Latin genus name followed by the species name</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because the fossil record contains no transitional forms; they have found one kind of organism or another, not a mixture of features from two different kinds of organisms</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because they interpret they don't know</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because they believe slow or fixed marine organisms were buried first and then highly mobile land animals were buried last</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because anthracite coal produces less smoke than the other kinds of coal, so it helps reduce air pollution</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because oil and gas are less dense than water and rock, so they try to flow upward through the rocks, but impermeable rock prevents the upward movement of these fluids; if this rock were permeable, the gas and oil would escape and there would be no reservoir</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>We obtain petroleum and natural gas from oil/gas wells drilled into the rocks deep underground</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because there were large rocks, boulders, and even broken tree trunks that indicate that the materials were deposited in turbulent fast flowing waters, not quiet marshes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because we would expect that oil reservoirs would be produced in sedimentary rocks where the marine organisms were buried; there should be no source of oil for deeper than the igneous rocks if petroleum comes from fossilized marine organisms</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because many of the world's poor people heat and cook using low efficiency, highly polluting sources of energy; if they could have access to efficient coal plants or even non-polluting regional sources of energy such as hydropower and nuclear plants, they would produce far less carbon dioxide per capita; this would also improve their quality of life</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers