Name__________________________________ Date____________________ Period__ Relative Dating and Evolution Review: 1. The preserved remains or traces of organisms that lived in the past are ____________. 2. How do Fossils form? 3. Fossils form in what type of rock (s)? 4. What is the law of superposition? 5. Fossils of organisms that were widely distributed but only lived during a short period of time are called_______________. 6. What is a rock layer’s age compared to the ages of other rock layers? 7. The gradual change in a species over time is _________________________. 8. In the law of superposition, the fossils found in the bottom layer are ________________ than organisms alive today. 9. Define folding, faulting and uplifting. 10. What is 1 piece of evidence that suggests that ancestors of whales once walked on land? 11. What is a cladogram? 12. Draw a reverse fault and label hanging wall and foot wall. 13. What is stress (faults)? 14. What is tension (fault)? 15. What is compression? 16. What is shearing? 17. What type of fault has the hanging wall of a reverse fault pushed on top of the footwall? Golden-Science Change over Time Review 1 Name__________________________________ Date____________________ Period__ 18. Draw a normal fault and label hanging wall and foot wall. 19. Draw a strike slip fault and label hanging wall and foot wall. 20. Explain Darwin’s Theory of evolution vs. Lamarck’s. 21. What is a homologous structure? 22. What is natural selection? 23. What are contour lines? 24.What is an adaptation? 25.What happens to a species that cannot adapt? 26.Do adaptations happen quickly? 27.Does evolution happen quickly? 28.What is the most recent change in the evolution of the whale? 29.How do trees evolve in a warmer climate? 30.Calculate the temperature in Celsius and Fahrenheit of a site that has 65% smooth leaves. 31.What is a trait? 32.Give examples of inherited traits. 33.Give examples of learned behaviors. 34.What is Darwin’s Theory of Evolution? 35.Where did Darwin do his research on Finches? 36. What did Darwin conclude about the Finches beaks? 37. Diagram the rock cycle. Be sure to include the processes of melting, erosion, and heat/pressure. 38. Describe and diagram the thermal processes driving the rock cycle (convection currents)? 39. Tell where the thermal energy for the rock cycle originates? 40. Describe how plate motion causes rocks to move through the rock cycle? Golden-Science Change over Time Review 2 Name__________________________________ Date____________________ Period__ 41. Describe an example of a gradual change that could lead to extinction in a species. Identify if it is a climate or geological change. 42. Describe an example of an instantaneous change that could lead to extinction in a species. Identify if it is a climate or geological change. 43. Explain how the fossil record illustrates the extinction of a species. 44. What is radiometric dating? 45. Calculate the total number of atoms if a fossils has 150 atoms of Carbon 14 and 450 atoms of Carbon 12. 46. Calculate the number of half-life if a fossils has 150 atoms of Carbon 14 and 450 atoms of Carbon 12. 47. How old is the fossil above. (Remember to use your chart to we did together in class for the age of Carbon). 48. What percentage of the fossil is Carbon 12? Carbon 14? 49. Know and be able to use the laws of crosscutting, superposition, erosion and deposition, unconformity and inclusion. 50. MAKE SURE YOU CAN READ A TOPOGRAPHIC MAP, CLADOGRAM, ROCK LAYERS WITH AND WITHOUT FOSSILS (LAW OF SUPERPOSITION AND RELATIVE DATING. a) Why are there no fossils from 150-230mya? b) What is the absolute age of Coal? c) What is the relative age of Shale? d) Name an index fossil? Golden-Science Change over Time Review 3 Name__________________________________ Date____________________ Period__ e) Which layer is the youngest layer? Oldest layer? f) Which organism is most closely related to a salamander? 1 Finish the mountain diagram below the topographic map, completing Oak Hill and drawing Ash Hill with proper elevations. 2. Approximately how tall is Ash ___________________________ Hill? Golden-Science Change over Time Review 4 Name__________________________________ Date____________________ Period__ 3. Approximately how tall is Oak Hill? 4. Which mountain is taller? ___________________________ ___________________________ 5. How many meters of elevation are there between contour lines on ___________________________ the topographic map? 6. Are the contour lines closer together on Ash Hill or Oak Hill? ___________________________ 7. Which mountain has steeper ___________________________ slopes? Golden-Science Change over Time Review 5