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- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which of the following is the 3rd step in fossil formation?Organism dies.Organism is buried by sediments.Minerals replace organism bones.
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which of the following is defined as determining the relative order of past events, without necessarily determining the exact age?relative datingabsolute dating
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Does relative dating use nearby layers and fossils relative to each other to find the relative age of new items?yesno
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.In what type of rocks are fossils found?igneousmetamorphicsedimentary
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which of the following determines a specific date for a fossil using chemical information?absolute datingrelative dating
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which process uses radiometric dating to determine an exact age of a fossil?absolute datingrelative dating
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which of the following is a method used to determine the age of rocks using the rate of decay of radioactive isotopes?Principle of superpositionRadiometric datingRelative datingPrinciple of cross-cutting relations
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which definition is the best to describe evolution?Change over timeDescent with modification
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which of the following is a proven fact by scientists that may be altered with new information?predictionhypothesisscientific theorylaw
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What mechanism did Darwin propose for evolution?natural selectionfossil recorduse it or lose itbiochemistry
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which of the following is an examples of evolution?comparative biochemistryfossil recordcamouflage adapationcomparative anatomy
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Identify these 4 - fossil record, comparative embryology, comparative biochemistry and comparative anatomy.Examples of EvolutionEvidence of EvolutionMechanisms of Evolution
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which of the following pieces of evolution evidence deals with aged and identified fossils?fossil recordcomparative embryologycomparative biochemistrycomparative anatomy
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which of the following pieces of evolution evidence deals with similar molecules in related individual species?fossil recordcomparative embryologycomparative biochemistrycomparative anatomy
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which of the following pieces of evolution evidence deals with comparing similar structures in various species?fossil recordcomparative embryologycomparative biochemistrycomparative anatomy
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which of the following pieces of evolution evidence deals with structures common in embryos that form differently or for different purposes in adult form?fossil recordcomparative embryologycomparative biochemistrycomparative anatomy
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which of the following pieces of evolution evidence contain both homologous and vestigial structures?fossil recordcomparative embryologycomparative biochemistrycomparative anatomy
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which word is defined as the same structure in different species indicating a common ancestor?homologous structuresvestigial structures
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which word is defined as a reduced form of a functional structure in 1 organisms that shows up as fully functional in another?homologous structuresvestigial structures
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The forelimbs of penguin, alligator, bat, human are which of the following?homologous structuresvestigial structures
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.A pelvis in whales is which of the following?homologous structuresvestigial structures