Fossil Jeopardy Jeopardy Template

Vocabulary	True or False	Fill in the blank	Layers, layers, and more layers
100 Define strata Layer	100 True or False Trace fossils are often found in amber False	100 Original remains are found in __, __, or __ Tar, ice, and amber	0 Which strata is the youngest in column A
200 What is the Law of Superpostion When left I undisturbed, the oldest strata is always at the bottom of the sequence.	200 True or False Relative age is the record of fossils kept by paleontologists False	200 The __ is all of fossils people have ever collected Fossil record	200 Which two stratas were disturbed in II B and C
400 What is a mold A mold is when an organism decomposes, it leaves a space in the surrounding rock	400 True or False Index fossils are the remains of an organism that was common and widespread but existed for only about one million years or less True	400 Trace fossils are fossilized __, trails, and __ Footprints; burrows	400 What do the different organisms found in the layers show about the previous landscape It might have been a body of water
500 What is a cast Sediment or minerals the fill the void from the mold and creates a copy of the organisms original shape	500 True or False Original remains are found in sap, ice, and tar False	500 Sedimentary rock is __ Layered	0 Which stratas are the most similar from column A&A, B&C, C&B, D&D, and E&E
1000 What does extinct mean Animals that died out a long time ago	1000 True or False Living and dead can things can be fossils True	1000 Any method of measuring the actual age of something is __ Absolute Dating	0 Why is column :)

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