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Understanding Fossils: Earth's History and Classification

Discover the fascinating world of fossils, which provide invaluable evidence of ancient life on Earth. With a history spanning 4.6 billion years, fossils are primarily found in sedimentary rocks and studied by paleontologists through techniques like relative and radiometric dating. Learn about Earth's early conditions, from primordial soup to the evolution of prokaryotes, photosynthesizing organisms, and major eras including Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic. Explore the classification systems, including Linnaeus's binomial nomenclature, and the domains of life, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of Earth's biological history.

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Understanding Fossils: Earth's History and Classification

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  1. Fossils

  2. Earth’s Beginning

  3. Age and Eras

  4. Classification

  5. Taxonomy

  6. Miscellaneous

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  8. Any evidence of an organism that lived long ago.

  9. Fossil

  10. The aging of a fossil by looking at what rock layer it is found in is called?

  11. Relative Dating

  12. What type of rock are fossils usually found in?

  13. Sedimentary

  14. The aging of a fossil by using a radioactive isotope.

  15. Radiometric Dating

  16. Scientists that studies fossils are called?

  17. Paleontologists

  18. Earth is thought to be how old?

  19. 4.6 Billion Years Ago

  20. Early earth’s oceans were called what?

  21. Primordial Soup

  22. Early earth’s atmosphere was made of .

  23. Hydrogen, water vapor, ammonia, methane

  24. When was it that life was thought to have formed on the earth?

  25. 3.5 billion years ago

  26. Earth’s first forms of life were thought to be what type of cells.

  27. Prokaryotes & Heterotroph

  28. What era has the oldest evidence of live?

  29. Precambrian

  30. Photosynthesizing prokaryotes released this into early earth’s atmosphere.

  31. Oxygen

  32. What era are we living in?

  33. Cenozoic

  34. What era saw the evolution of worms and arthropods at the beginning?

  35. Paleozoic

  36. The era the Dinosaurs roamed the earth.

  37. Mesozoic

  38. Who divided everything up in to 2 groups, either plants or animals?

  39. Aristotle

  40. Organisms who have cells walls made of cellulose belong to what kingdom?

  41. Plantae

  42. What was the type of classification that Linnaeus come up with?

  43. Binomial nomenclature

  44. What language is used for scientific name and give one reason why it is used?

  45. Latin & Language is dead The words don’t change Words only have one meaning

  46. What kingdoms make up the domain eukarya

  47. Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia

  48. A group of closely related species

  49. Genus

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