LET’S PLAY JEOPARDY!!

1. LET’S PLAY JEOPARDY!!

2. Fossils Jeopardy! Final Jeopardy

3. Vocabulary.: $100 What are objects that are traces or remains of living things from long ago? Fossils Get Answer

4. Vocabulary:$200 What is a solid model in the shape of the organism? Casts Get Answer

5. Vocabulary: $300 What is the age of an event or object in relation to other events or objects? Relative Age Get Answer

6. Vocabulary: $400 What is the fossils of organisms that were common, that lived in many areas, and that existed only during a certain span of time? Index Fossil Get Answer

7. Vocabulary: $500 What is the length of time it takes for half of the atoms in a sample of a radioactive element to change from an unstable form to another form? Half-life Get Answer

8. D.O.S.: $100 In Antarctica, scientists study environmental changes that occurred over thousands of years by taking? Ice cores Get Answer

9. D.O.S.: $200 The body of a small insect is found preserved in amber. What is this body an example of? Original remains Get Answer

10. D.O.S.: $300 What is often used with igneous rocks to determine their age in years? Radioactive dating Get Answer

11. D.O.S.: $400 By studying the carbon 14 levels of the original remains of a saber-toothed cat, scientists have determined the ____ of this cat to be 20,000 years old. Absolute age Get Answer

12. D.O.S.: $500 Why don’t igneous rocks contain fossils? The high temperatures of the molten rock from which the igneous rock forms destroys any trace of plants or animals. Get Answer

13. Potluck: $100 A fossil of a dinosaur’s footprint is an example of a ______ ? Trace Fossil Get Answer

14. Potluck: $200 What a tubular sample that shows the layers that have built up over thousands of years hence giving the a vertical timeline of Earth? Ice Core Get Answer

15. Potluck: 300 What forms from resin, a sticky substance inside trees that flows like syrup and protects the trees by trapping insects? amber Get Answer

16. Potluck:400 How is petrified wood created? Over time, water passes through sediments and into trees cells. Minerals that carried in the water take the place of cells, producing a stone likeness. Get Answer

17. Potluck:$500 What are original remains? Fossils that are the actual bodies or body parts of organisms. Get Answer

18. PowerPoint: $100 . Who are scientists who study fossils? Paleontologists Get Answer

19. PowerPoint: $200 Name 3 of the 5 types of fossils. Petrified fossils Molds and casts Carbon films Trace fossils Original remains Get Answer

20. PowerPoint: $300 What is a carbon film? Carbon film is an extremely thin coating of carbon on rock Get Answer

21. PowerPoint: $400 What numbered layer of sedimentary rock is probably the oldest? 2 Get Answer

22. PowerPoint: $500 Which numbered rock layers are younger than the igneous intrusion layer? • Layer 1 does not cut through layers 5 and 6 indicating that they were deposited after the intrusion occurred. Get Answer

23. How Fossils are made: $100 What are sedimentary rocks formed from sand deposits? sandstone Get Answer

24. How Fossils are made: $200 What is a type of sedimentary rock formed from deposits of shells? limestone Get Answer

25. How fossils are made: $300 Aquatic animals What type of animal is the most likely to be preserved? Get Answer

26. How Fossils are made: $400 Petrified wood is what type of wood? permineralized Get Answer

27. How Fossils are made: $500 Where would one find mummified remains of plants and animals? Hot arid locations Get Answer

28. Final Jeopardy What should I be studying for the test? 1. DoS questions Vocabulary Reread chapter 9 How fossils are made worksheet Power point notes Get Answer