Mrs. Todd’s 5th Science Class Chapter 2 Cheat Sheet

Remember in order to get 5 points on your test or a no homework pass;you must locate the terms below on your own paper. Remember, you can use any means to write it- except typing.

Paleontologyevolutionistcreationistextinctiondecomposition

ExcavationsitedigBehemothLeviathan

Carbon Datingfossil recordtaricesediment

Ambercarbon filmcastfossilpetrified fossil

Trace fossilmold

Be sure to know creationist and evolutionist viewpoints on the age of the earth, the Flood, when animals came on the earth, dinosaurs, and the fossil record.

Fossils and Dinosaurs Chapter 2 Chapter Outline

  1. Fossil Formation
  2. Fossils are preserved in sediment
  3. Fossil: is any ______or ______of a living ______that is naturally ______after it dies. Most fossils are found in ______.
  4. Decompose: the ______away of soft tissue.
  5. Petrified Fossil: when the ______or ______from an animal or tree is replaced by ______.
  6. Mold: an ______of an organism in ______. It leaves an ______space in the ______as it decomposed.
  7. Cast: when ______fills in the empty ______in the mold.
  8. Carbon film: When a plant has ______under heavy sediment and leaves an ______of itself on the ______. This ______happens when part of the plant turns to ______.
  9. Trace Fossils are ______or ______that have been fossilized. These show how the animal may have ______or what foods were ______.
  10. Fossils are preserved in other materials
  11. Amber: a ______from a plant that has ______into a yellow ______substance. ______have been fossilized in this way.
  12. Ice: scientists have found almost completely ______arctic animals in the far ______. (Example the ______).
  13. Tar: in places where oil oozes out of the ground and form ______such as those in ______in California, scientists have discovered many plants and animals that have fallen in and were preserved by the tar. Some examples of fossilized animals that have been located are: ______.
  14. Two Ways of Looking at Fossils
  15. Evolution: believe that the earth came into being by ______.
  16. Evolved: developed ______over ______of years.
  17. Geologic ages: looking at ______as long periods of time. According to evolution, depending on which ______a fossil is found will determine the ______of the fossil.
  18. Creation:
  19. Creationists: scientists that believe that the earth came to being by what it says in ______.
  20. Flood: Creationists believe that most fossils were created during the ______based upon the account in ______.
  21. Learning from Fossils
  22. Excavation Fossils
  23. paleontology: the ______of ______.
  24. excavation: ______a ______from the rock behind it.
  25. Preparing Fossils
  26. preparers: paleontologists who carefully ______fossils
  27. x-ray: is used on fossils to look inside of them.
  28. Reconstructing Fossils: using scientific data, artists recreate what an animal may have looked like thousands of years ago.
  29. Dating Fossils:
  30. Geologic age: doesn’t work if there was a great ______. It only shows that animals could ______to ______ground. This is because both simple and complex organisms have been found in the lowest rock layers.
  31. Carbon dating: measures the ______of ______in a fossil. It relies on the breaking down of carbon in the fossil.
  32. Problems with carbon dating: because it is not exact, scientists have to ______based on today’s conditions. There is no proof that things have always been the same as they are today. It also limits the ages in the thousands. It also assumes that ______is true.
  1. Dinosaurs
  2. What Their Fossils Teach Us
  3. Appearance: give us an idea on what they looked like. Paleontologists use ______of dinosaurs to do this.
  4. Sauropod: the ______dinosaur
  5. Pteranodon: the dinosaur with ______.
  6. Diet and Behavior
  7. Dinosaurs with blunt teeth ate: ______
  8. Dinosaurs with sharp teeth: ate: ______(but before the flood, probably used their sharp teeth to______)
  9. What the Bible Teaches Us
  10. evolutionists believe that man and dinosaurs ______at ______times.
  11. The bible teaches that ______and ______lived at the ______times.
  12. behemoth: mentioned in Job ______. It was a ______eating animal with a tail like ______. Scientists believe that this animal is the ______.
  13. Leviathan: which was a large ______with very strong ______. People believe that this animal was the ______. One type of ______called ______have been found with 10 ft skulls
  14. Dragons and flying serpents: mentioned in the books of ______and ______. These were probably dinosaurs.
  15. The Bible teaches that
  16. Dinosaurs existed
  17. They were created on the 5th and 6th days of creation with all other animals
  18. They lived at the same time as all other creatures
  19. They lived at the same time as man.
  20. Extinction of Dinosaurs
  21. extinction: a certain plant or animal ______.
  22. many theories by evolutionists try to explain why dinosaurs died off without taking the ______into account. Some of these theories are ______, volcanoes, or diseases and changes in the air.
  23. Taking the flood into account, the dinosaurs could have died due to the earth’s ______changing after the flood, food not able to ______, they also could have been ______by man for food.
  24. We will never prove what happened at the beginning but we can either trust what God says happened or try to find truth apart from him.