Exam 8: Fossils and Their Place in Time and Nature

Which of the following has the greatest likelihood of becoming fossilized?

Why is it critical that paleontologists reconstruct past environments to provide a complete picture of a particular lineage's evolution? Name one way in which paleontologists reconstruct paleoenvironments.

Variants of elements that differ based on the number of neutrons in the atom's nucleus are called:

The earth is about 4.6 billion years old.

Fossils representing most of the living groups of animals (e.g.,fish,insects,mammals)derive from the Precambrian eon.

Studies of temperatures during the Cenozoic era suggest that:

Biostratigraphic dating relies on:

Recent paleoenvironmental reconstructions suggest that the earliest members of the hominid lineage evolved in:

One of the only fossil sites in the world that preserves a great deal of evidence for anthropoid evolution during the Eocene and Oligocene epochs is:

In terms of geologic time,human beings are a very recent arrival on Earth.

Electron spin resonance dating would be most useful in attempting to date which object?

Dendrochronology is an absolute dating method.

At a site in the American Southwest,you find only a single ceramic pot in association with an individual within a burial.You can use the pot to date the burial based on:

The absolute dating technique that emerged as a result of research into constructing the atomic bomb during World War II is:

Which of the following cultural artifacts would provide the most narrowly defined date for the sediments from which it was recovered?