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ransom 8th - ch 8/9
| question | answer |
|---|---|
| Who came up with the idea of Pangea? | Alfred Wegener |
| Scientist who look for clues to reconstruct what happened in the past are called | Paleontologist |
| What are the three evidences of Pangea? | Shapes of continents; fossils; glaciers...elaborate more on these |
| Name two methods scientists use to determine the age of fossils and tell what makes them different. | Absolute and relative dating. Look up differences |
| The ______ is a calendar scientists use to outline the history of life on Earth | Geoogical Time Scale |
| The end of each ______ is marked by _______ | Era, extinction |
| The period in the geologic time scale beginning when Earth orginated is _______time | precambrian |
| The era 65 million years ago to today is known as the _____ era | cenozoic |
| ______ ______ such as chemicals, water, clay, dissolved minerals, in oceans and gases in atmosphere formed life. | Non-living matter |
| Fossils in the Paleozoic era | sponges |
| How many years ago did humans' ancestors start living? | 4 million years ago |
| How do scientists think dinosaurs died? | A big metorite |
| At the end of the palezoic era, what started to appear? | dragonflies, winged insects, reptiles and cockroaches |
| What species quietly went extinct? | neanderthals |
| Where was the group of australopitheecines? | Southern Africa |
| ____________ was like a present day humun with bigger heavier bones. | Cro Magnon |
| A paleoantropologist discovered ________ in Tanzania | australopithecines' footprints |
| There are ____ animal kingdoms. | 5 |
| All organisms have a _____ part scientific name. | 2 |
| What did Carolus Linnaeus find? | taxonomy |
| The first and second part of a scientific name identifies... | genus and species |
| Describe the first and last levels of classification, kingdom and species. | kingdom contains all organisms of a certain type; species contains one animal with certain characteristics. |
| What does the dichotomous key do? | It classifies all organisms into groups |
| Archaebacteria and eubacteria are | prokaryotes |
| Members of the Kingdom Protista are | single-celled |
| Most bacteria are classified in which kingdom? | eubacteria |
| What kind of organisms live in hot springs or other extreme environments? | archaebacteria |
| Which kingdom do humans belong to? What characteristics place humans here? | Animalia...look up the characteristics |
| Name the six kingdoms. | Protista, Archaebacteria, eubacteria, plantae, fungi, animalia |
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