Transcript Science Olympiad Fossils Division B

Science Olympiad
Fossils
Division B
2015
4 – Test/Game
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Flash Cards Instructions
Divide the work between team members
Check each others work
Work on the fossils assign to your team
Use the sample flash cards posted to the schools Science Olympiad web
site under the Fossil event. Sample Files are:
1. FlashCardsFusulinidsNummulites.ppt
2. FlashCardsHemichordataMucrospirifer.pptx
5. Save your flash card files using this name:
1. FlashCardsName of FossileName of Fossil
Example is: FlashCardsFusulinidsNummulites.ppt
For Fossil pictures start with these 3 files loaded on the school Science
Olympiad web site
2009-Fossil-Poster.pdf
2009-Fossil-Notes-B.pdf
2009-Fossil-Notes-B2.pdf
Another good source is:
Web Site: http://scioly.org/wiki/index.php/Fossil_List
Fossils in the News
Joseph Groenke/Stony Brook University/AP
View Caption
Madagascar, long known for an bizarre assortment of dinosaurs and early mammals,
has yielded up another unusual creature – one that could help researchers figure out
how long mammals truly have trod the Earth.
An international team of scientists has uncovered a virtually complete skull of an animal
they've named Vintana sertichi. Its traits place it within a group of mammals known as
Gondwanatheria.
The new specimen hails from rock formations in northwestern Madagascar that date to
between 72 million and 66 million years ago, toward the end of the Cretaceous and the
reign of dinosaurs. V. sertichi's skull measures just under 5 inches long, leading the
team to estimate that the rodent-like animal weighed about 20 pounds – the largest
mammal yet found from the Mesozoic period on what once was Gondwana and the
second largest mammal from the Mesozoic worldwide.
Start of Game
Test/Game
• This picture shows what
type of a fossil:
A - Cast
B - Mold
C - Trace
Answer is:Answer
B - Mold
Casts and Molds
Fossils can be in the form
of Casts or Molds
Test/Game
• What time period did
this sea creature live:
A - Jurassic
B - Late Ordovician
Paradoxides
C - Middle Cambrian
D - Neoarchean
Answer is:
Answer
C
- Middle Cambrian
Test/Game
• Find the Trilobite section
in your book.
• Find the Trilobite
•Look for the “Range”
Paradoxides
Test/Game
• What is the correct relationship of Time
period names:
A - Epoch, Era, Period, Eon, Age
B - Eon, Era, Period, Epoch, Age
C - Period, Cambrian, Era, Epoch
D - Eon, Period, Era, Epoch, Age
Answer is:
Epoch, Age
B - Eon, Era, Period,
Answer
Test/Game
• How many Eons are there:
Answer is:
Answer
4
Test/Game
• What are the names of the 4 Eons:
A - Hadean, Phanerozoic, Proterozoic,
Archean
B - Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Paleozoic
C - Hadean, Paleozoic, Proterozoic, Archean
D - Mesozoic, Phanerozoic, Proterozoic,
Archean
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Answer is:
A - Hadean,
Answer
Phanerozoic, Proterozoic, Archean
EON
named
Phanerozoic
3 EONS
th
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Test/Game
• The word fossil comes from the Latin word
fossilis, which means:
A - Meaning to floss ones teeth
B - Referring to false bones
C - Means old
D - Things that are dug up
Answer is:Answer
D - Things that are
dug up
Test/Game
What is the mode of Preservation?
A
Option 1
A. Permineralization
B. Petrifiction
C. Tar
D. Amber
E. Frozen
B
Option 2
A. Amber
B. Frozen
C. Tar
D. Petrifiction
E. Permineralization
Option 3
A. Amber
B. Frozen
C. Tar
D. Permineralization
E. Petrifiction
C
D
E
Answer
is:
Answer
Option 3
Test/Game
• Which Epoch is not associated with the age of
Mammals:
A - Oligocene
E - Eocene
B - Paleocene
C - Cretaceous
D - Miocene
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Answer is:
C - Cretaceous
Answer
Test/Game
• Which Epoch is associated with the age of
Amphibians:
A - Jurassic
B - Carboniferous
C - Pliocene
D - Miocene
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Answer is:Answer
B - Carboniferous
Ages of Geological Time
Era
Cenozoic
Period or Epoch
Pleistocene
Age
Age of Man
Pliocene
Miocene
Oligocene
Age of Mammals
Eocene
Paleocene
Mesozoic
Cretaceous
Jurassic
Age of Reptiles
Triassic
Paleozoic
Permian
Carboniferous
Age of Amphibians
Devonian
Silurian
Age of Fishes
Ordovician
Cambrian
Age of Sea Life
Test/Game
• From oldest to Youngest list these fossils.
A
1 - A, B, C
2 - B, A, C
3 - C, A, B
B
Answer
Answer is:
2 - B, A, C
C
Test/Game
• Crinoids
Dimerocrinites
Silurian-Devonian
• Ophiuroidea Paleocoma or Brittle Star
E. Jurassic
Archaeopteryx - Late Jurassic
Lived, in what is now southern Germany during a time
when Europe was an archipelago of islands in a shallow
warm tropical sea, much closer to the equator than it is
now. A genus of early bird that is transitional between
feathered dinosaurs and modern birds. The name derives
from the ancient Greek ἀρχαῖος (archaīos) meaning
"ancient", and πτέρυξ (ptéryx), meaning "feather" or "wing".
Test/Game
• Identify
A
B
these two fossils.
B
Answer is: Answer
A- Conus B Platyceras
Test/Game
• Identify
these two fossils.
Fossils of Conus have been recovered from the Late
Cretaceous – to Recent
A
B
Platyceras is a genus of extinct Paleozoic sea
snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family
Platyceratidae. This genus is known from the
Silurian to Early Carboniferous periods. has
distinctive shape that is easily recognized. The caplike shell is high and broad anteriorly. The posterior
portion of the shell, at the apex, is usually slightly
coiled in an asymmetrical fashion.
Questions ?
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Index Fossils