124352939 | 3.9 billion years old | How old are the oldest rocks? | |
124352940 | Physical evidence that an organism lived | What is a fossil? | |
124352941 | Markings left by an animal | What is a trace fossil? | |
124352942 | Minerals in rocks fill spare left by decaying organisms | What is a cast? | |
124352943 | Minerals replace hard parts of an organism making a copy | what is a petrified fossil? | |
124352944 | Thin objects fall into sediment and leaves and imprint when sediment hardens | Whats an imprint fossil? | |
124352945 | Move up 2 spaces | BONUS | |
124352946 | Organism is burried in sediment and then decays and leaves an empty space | What is a mold? | |
124352947 | Entire organism is trapped in ice or sap that hardens to amber | What is an amber? | |
124352948 | A scientist that studies ancient life | What is a paleontologist? | |
124352949 | A dinosaur ate you go back 4 spaces | BONUS | |
124352950 | Each radio active isotope decays at a certain rate | What is the half life? | |
124352951 | Commonly dates fossils up too 50000 years | What is Carbon 14 | |
124352952 | 4 | How many "eras" are there? | |
124352953 | He disproved spontaneous generation of microorganisms | Who Was Louis Pasteur? | |
124352954 | The idea that living organisms only come from other living organisms | What is Biogenisis? | |
124352955 | They tested the theory that life began in the ocean | What did Stanley Miller and Urey do? | |
124352956 | Groups of lipid and protein molecules | What are protocells? | |
124352957 | They form form protein that has been heated in salt water | What do protocells form from? | |
124352958 | Prokaryotes formed from protocells | What were the first forms of life? | |
124352959 | Large scale, results in taxonomic groups | What is macroevolution? | |
124352960 | Small ,specific genetic changes | What is microevolution? | |
124352961 | He made observations to support ideas that god created life | Who was Corolus Linnaeus? | |
124352962 | Change through use and disuse | Who was Jean Baptiste Larmarck? | |
124352963 | Natiuralist,studied diverse species | Who was Charles Darwin? | |
124352964 | Oldest fossils in bottom rock layer | What is relative dating? | |
124352965 | Use at radioactive isotopes to detirmine accurate sate of a fossil | What is radiometric dating? | |
124352966 | Starts at the beggining of the earth | What is the hypothetical calender? | |
124352967 | 3.5 billion years ago | When was the earliest evidence of life recorded? | |
124352968 | Precambian | What was the first era of the earth? | |
124352969 | Paleozoic | What was the second era of the earth called? | |
124352970 | Largest increase in diversity of life | What happened in the paleozoic era? | |
124352971 | 90% marine species and 70% land species | What was wiped out in the paleozoic extinction? | |
124352972 | Mesozoic | What was the third era of the earth called? | |
124352973 | 245 mya | When did the Mesozoic era begin? | |
124352974 | One large land mass | What is Pangea? | |
124352975 | Continued drift of the earths plates. | What is plate techtonics? | |
124352976 | Cenozoic | What if the fourth era of the earth called? | |
124352977 | 66 mya | When did the cenozoic era begin? | |
124352978 | Mamals | What vainshed in the cenozoic era? | |
124352979 | He disproved spontaneous generation of large organisms | Who was Frencesco Redi? | |
124352980 | Massive extinction from an ice age, go back 10 spaces | BONUS | |
124352981 | Survive a meteor shower advance 10 spaces | BONUS | |
124352982 | Charles Darwin | Who was known as the "father of evolution" | |
124352983 | Best known for there different climates | What are the galapagos islands? | |
124352984 | Enables species to look like eachother | What is mimicry? | |
124352985 | Enables species to blend in with surroundings | What is camoflage? | |
124352986 | Changes to the species body | What are structural adaptations? | |
124352987 | A body part that has no function | What is a vestigial structure? | |
124352988 | DNA and RNA comparisons. | What is biochemistry? |
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