AB Ch 8
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
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| Fossils | traces of things preserved in rock
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| Formation | covered in sediment and decomposes, sediment pressed together
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| Cyanobacteria | prokaryotes, sunlight to make food
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| Paleozoic | age of fishes, life moved onto land, “ancient life”
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| Cenozoic | age of mammals, current era
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| Mesozoic | age of reptiles, dinosaurs, mammals started to form
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| Precambrian | life began
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| Opposable thumbs | grip, all primates
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| Front | facing eyes
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| Primates | binocular vision, and opposable thumbs
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| Hominids | earliest fossils in Africa, homo erectus
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| Ozone layer | protects earth from radiation
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| Mass extinctions | sudden global climate change, mark divisions in geologic time, largest
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| Eras | blocks of geologic time
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| Pangea | supercontinent
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| Relative dating | estimate age based on where it is found
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| Neanderthals | lived at the same time as homo sapiens
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| Paleontologists | scientists who study life before humans
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| Half | life
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| Tectonic plates | continents and oceans are on top of
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| Australopithecenes | similar to apes, but bigger brains
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| Homo sapiens | first to create sculpture and paintings
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| Scientists believe life came from simple chemicals |
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