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| --- are the remains or traces of ancient life which have been preserved by natural causes in the Earth's crust. Include both the remains of organisms (such as --- or ---), and the traces of organisms |
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| --- and --- environments are more favorable for fossil preservation than are continental environments, because the rate of sediment deposition tends to be higher. |
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| Rock that is composed of echinoderms and foraminifera |
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| Rock that is composed of shells of clams, snails, or scleractinian coral |
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| Rock that is composed of bones and teeth of vertebrates, conodonts, the outer covering of trilobites, and scales of fossil fish |
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| Rock that is composed of skeletons of diatoms and radiolarians, and some types of sponges |
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| chemical alteration in where aragonite alters to calcite |
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| Classification of the human: |
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Hominidae
Genus: Homo
Sex: Sapiens |
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| species that are found almost everywhere; they are not restricted to a single geographic location in their environment. |
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| species that are restricted to a specific area in the environment in which they live. |
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| Appearances and disappearances of fossils may indicate: |
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| species that are restricted to a specific area in the environment in which they live. |
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| Appearances and disappearances of fossils may indicate: |
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Change of appearance
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Migration |
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| Fossils that are useful in identifying time-rock units and in correlation |
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| A short geologic range, widely distributed,and its abundance are characteristics of |
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| Term where body of rock deposited during the time when a particular fossil organism existed. |
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| Range zones, Assemblage zone, and concurrent range zone are types of |
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| The interrelationship between organisms and their environment |
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| Term that is the study of ancient ecology, or the study of the interaction of ancient organisms with their environment. Mainly comparing ancient organisms with living organisms. |
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| The organisms and their environment - the entire system of physical, chemical, and biological factors influencing organisms. |
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| The environment in which the organism lives |
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| The way in which the organism lives - its role or lifestyle |
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| the association of several species of organisms in a particular habitat (the living part of the ecosystem). |
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| Term describing an ancient community |
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| Realm in which the water mass lies above the ocean floor |
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| Realm of the bottom of the sea |
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| In the pelagic realm, the zone of water overlying the continental shelves |
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| In the pelagic realm, the zone of the water seaward of the continental shelves |
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| In the benthic realm, the zone above the high tide line |
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| In the benthic realm, the zone between the high and low tide lines |
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| In the benthic realm, that is continually submerged. From the low tide line to the edge of the continental shelf |
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| Swimming animals that live within the water column |
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| Benthic organisms or benthos |
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| The type of Benthic organisms that live beneath the sediment surface |
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| Type of Benthic organisms that live on top of the sediment surface |
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| Mineral grains from weathered continental rocks |
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| Sediment of biological origin |
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| Parts from biogenous sediment that come from the remains of foraminifera, coccolithophores, and pteropods (planktonic gastropods or snails) |
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| Biogenous sediment that comes from the remains of radiolarians and diatoms |
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| Minerals that precipitate from sea water by chemical reactions |
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| Above the Carbonate Compensation Depth (CCD), the water is (warmer/cooler) and the precipitate forms what types of rocks |
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| Below the Carbonate Compensation Depth (CCD), the water is (warmer/cooler) and the precipitate forms what types of rocks |
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Cooler
Clay or siliceous sediments |
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| High latitudes have (high/low) species diversity |
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| Low latitudes have (high/low) species diversity |
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| Oldest evidence of life are remains of prokaryotic cells more than 3.5 billion years old. Found in --- and --- |
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| stromatolites and algal mats |
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| Trace fossil of --- are about 1 billion year |
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| Trilobites and vertebrates such as: fishes, amphibians, and reptiles were found in what era |
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| Pelecypods including: clams, scallops, oysters, as well as: sea urchins and vertebrates like dinosaurs, primitive mammals, and birds were a part of what era |
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| Trilobites and soft-bodied worms were organisms of what era |
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| Early paleozoic- cambrian period |
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| Molluscs, planktonic foraminifera, sea urchins, encrusting bryozoans, barnacles, many mammals, and the appearance of humans were a part of what era |
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