AY Honors/Fossils/Answer Key
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1. Make a collection of at least ten different kinds of fossils and label each with its name and geographic location.
2. Have a brief definition of each of the following in your notebook:
- a. Geology
- Geology is the science and study of the solid matter that constitutes the Earth.
- b. Fossils
- Fossils are the mineralized or otherwise preserved remains or traces (such as footprints) of animals, plants, and other organisms.
- c. Catastrophism
- Catastrophism is the idea that Earth has been affected by sudden, short-lived, violent events that were sometimes worldwide in scope.
- d. Paleontology
- Paleontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils.
- e. Graptolite
- A Graptolite is a fossil colonial animal known chiefly from the Upper Cambrian through the Lower Carboniferous (Mississippian) periods.
- f. Trilobite
- Trilobites are extinct arthropods that form the class Trilobita. They appeared in the 2nd Epoch (Series 2) of the Cambrian period and flourished throughout the lower Paleozoic era before beginning a drawn-out decline to extinction when, during the Late Devonian extinction, all trilobite orders, with the sole exception of Proetida, died out.
- g. Dinosaur
- A dinosaur is any of various extinct reptiles.
- h. Mammoth
- A mammoth is any species of an extinct genus of proboscidean (elephants and their extinct relatives), often with long curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair.
- i. Mastodon
- Mastodons are members of the extinct genus Mammut of the order Proboscidea and form the family Mammutidae; they resembled, but were distinct from, the woolly mammoth which belongs to the family Elephantidae. Mastodons were browsers and mammoths were grazers.
- j. Crinoid
- k. Lingula
- l. Calamite
- m. Foraminifera
- n. Radiolaria
- o. Paleozoic
- p. Mesozoic
- q. Cenozoic
- r. Pleistocene
- s. Paleobotany
- t. Pelecypod
- u. Brachiopod
