200 likes | 437 Views
earth sc. ch. 9. FOSSILS: REMAINS OR EVIDENCE OF ANCIENT LIFE REMAINS ARE PRESERVED WHEN BURIED BY SEDIMENTS QUICK BURIAL HELPS PRESERVATION SEDIMENTS PRESERVE HARD PARTS IN SEDIMENTARY ROCK COMMON ANIMAL REMAINS: BONES, SHELLS, TEETH COMMON PLANT REMAINS: POLLEN, SEEDS, STEMS
E N D
earth sc. ch. 9 FOSSILS: REMAINS OR EVIDENCE OF ANCIENT LIFE • REMAINS ARE PRESERVED WHEN BURIED BY SEDIMENTS • QUICK BURIAL HELPS PRESERVATION • SEDIMENTS PRESERVE HARD PARTS IN SEDIMENTARY ROCK • COMMON ANIMAL REMAINS: BONES, SHELLS, TEETH • COMMON PLANT REMAINS: POLLEN, SEEDS, STEMS • PALEONTOLOGISTS: SCIENTISTS WHO STUDY FOSSILS slide 1
EIGHT TYPES OF FOSSILS • PETRIFIED: LIVING TISSUE TURNED INTO STONE • THE REMAINS ABSORBS WATER WITH DISSOLVED MINERALS • TISSUE SLOWLY DECAYS, LEAVES MINERAL-HARDENED FOSSIL 2. MOLD: HOLLOW IN SEDIMENTARY ROCK FORMED BY AN ORGANISM 3. CAST: COPIES THE SHAPE OF AN ORGANISM WHEN MOLD IS FILLED IN 4. CARBON FILM: THIN LAYER OF CARBON FROM FOSSIL • CARBON FROM CELLS LEFT AFTER DECAY • CREATES IMPRESSION OF ORIGINAL LIVING slide 2
EIGHT TYPES OF FOSSILS (cont.) 5. TRACE FOSSIL: FOSSIL MADE BY OR LEFT BY ANCIENT LIFE • INCLUDES FOOTPRINTS, NESTS, BURROWS, COPULITE • COPULITE: FOSSILIZED ANIMAL DUNG 6. TAR PITS: WATER FILLED DEPRESSIONS OF PETROLEUM DEPOSITS • ANIMALS COME TO DRINK, GET TRAPPED AND DIE • TAR PRESERVES REMAINS OF ANIMALS, PLANTS AND INSECTS • La Brea Tar Pits NEAR Los Angeles MOST WELL KNOWN EXAMPLE 7. AMBER: HARDENED TREE SAP WHICH TRAPS AND PRESERVES INSECTS 8. FREEZING: PRESERVES FLESH AND BONE IN PLACES SUCH AS ALASKA slide 3
FOSSIL RECORD AND EVOLUTION • SHOWS CHANGES IN LIFE, EARTH'S SURFACE OVER TIME • INDICATES THAT FOSSILS CHANGED IN A SPECIFIC SEQUENCE • LIFE FORMS DEVELOP FROM SIMPLE TO COMPLEX • SUPPORTS THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION • EVOLUTION: GRADUAL NATURAL PROCESS IN WHICH LIFE CHANGES • ALLOWS ADAPTATIONS TO CHANGES IN CLIMATE, ENVIRONMENT • EVOLUTION IS A SCIENTIFIC THEORY • THEORY: AN UNPROVEN EXPLANATION BASED ON EVIDENCE slide 4
THE FOSSIL RECORD INDICATES 3 WAYS THE ENVIRONMENT HAS CHANGED 1. INDICATES THAT LIFE HAS CHANGED • MILLIONS OF SPECIES OF LIFE HAVE BECOME EXTINCT, CHANGED • SPECIES: LIFE FORM OF LIFE ABLE TO INTERBREED (PRODUCE YOUNG) • SPECIES MAY BECOME TOO DIFFERENT TO INTERBREED OVER TIME 2. INDICATES THAT THE EARTH’S SURFACE HAS CHANGED • CONTINENTS HAVE MOVED AND CHANGED • MOUNTAIN RANGES, DESSERTS, VOLCANIC FEATURES FORM, DISAPPEAR 3. INDICATES CHANGES IN A LOCAL AND GLOBAL CLIMATES • RAIN & TEMPERATURE PATTENS CHANGE THE ENVIRONMENT • ANTARTICA ONCE A HOT, SWAMPY, RAIN FOREST slide 5
FINDING THE AGE OF FOSSILS 1. ABSOLUTE AGE: NUMBER OF YEARS OLD A FOSSIL BASED ON ITS ATOMS • BASED ON THE ACTUAL MATERIAL OF THE FOSSIL • RADIOACTIVE DATING IS OFTEN USED TO DETERMINE ABSOLUTE AGE 2. RELATIVE AGE: FOSSIL'S AGE RELATIVE TO ROCK LAYERS, OTHER FOSSILS • AGE ESTIMATED BY THE AGE OF KNOW MATERAILS AROUND FOSSIL • LAW OF SUPERPOSITION: STATES THAT TOP ROCK LAYERS ARE YOUNGER AND BOTTOM LAYERS ARE OLDER IN UNDISTURBED ROCK • A LAW IS A REPEATED PROVEN THEORY ACCEPTED AS TRUE • SEDIMENTARY ROCK FORMS LAYERS AS DEBRIS ACCUMULATES • GRAND CANYON: OLDEST FOSSILS ARE AT BOTTOM OF CANYON slide 6
2. RELATIVE AGE (continued) • IGNEOUS ROCK FORMATIONS HELP FIND RELATIVE AGE • ROCK EXTRUSIONS: YOUNGER THAN ROCK LAYERS THEY COVER • ROCK INTRUSIONS: YOUNGER THAN THE ROCK THEY GO THROUGH • FAULTS: YOUNGER THAN THE ROCK THEY GO THROUGH • INDEX FOSSIL: COMPARISION TOP COMMON, WELL STUDIED FOSSILS • FOSSIL ASSUMED THE SAME AGE AS THOSE FOUND WITH IT • COMMON EXAMPLE : TRILOBITES • UNCONFORMITY: GAP IN THE GEOLOGIC RECORD, OLDER ROCK ON TOP • MAY BE CAUSED BY ROCK MOVEMENT, UPLIFTING • MAY BE CAUSED BY EROSION OF SOFTER TOP LAYERS slide 7
RADIOACTIVE DATING: MEASURE OF THE LOSS OF RADIOACTIVE ENERGY • ALL MATTER IS MADE OF ATOMS • ELEMENTS: MADE OF IDENTICAL ATOMS, 109 KNOW TO EXIST • MOST ATOMS ARE STABLE (NORMALLY DO NOT CHANGE) • FEW UNSTABLE, BREAKDOWN TO FORM OTHER ELEMENTS OVER TIME • RADIOACTIVE DECAY: CHANGE OF UNSTABLE ELEMENTS TO STABLE ONES • OCCURS AT THE SAME UNIQUE RATE FOR EACH UNSTABLE ELEMENT • HALF-LIFE: TIME FOR 1/2 OF THE UNSTABLE ELEMENT TO CHANGE • AN ELEMENT'S HALF-LIFE IS USED TO DETERMINE ITS ABSOLUTE AGE slide 8
OBTAINING ABSOLUTE AGE FROM RADIOACTIVE HALF-LIFE DATING • POTASSIUM 40 (UNSTABLE) TO ARGON (STABLE) HAS A HALF-LIFE OF • 1.3 BILLION YEARS (DATES OLDEST ROCKS) • CARBON 14 ( TO NITROGEN 14) HAS A HALF-LIFE OF ~6,000 YRS (5,730 DATES RECENT FOSSILS) • SEDIMENTARY LAYERS ARE OFTEN DATED BY INTRUSIONS, EXTRUSIONS • HALF-LIFE NOT USUALLY USED TO DATE SEDIMENTARY ROCK LAYERS • SEDIMENTS MAY HAVE ALL DIFFERENT AGES • AGE OF THE EARTH; ABOUT 4.6 BILLION YEARS • OLDEST ROCKS ARE ABOUT 4.0 BILLION YEARS OLD • EARTH'S AGE DERIVED FROM OLDEST MOON ROCKS slide 9
GEOLOGIC TIME: USED TO MEASURE THE HISTORY OF THE EARTH AS A PLANET • GEOLOGIC TIME IS BROKEN INTO 4 HUGE TIME UNITS CALLED ERAS • ERAS ARE MARKED BY DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT TYPES OF LIFE • DRAMATIC CHANGES IN CLIMATE MAY DRIVEN THESE CHANGES IN LIFE • THE PRECAMBRIAN IS THE LONGEST ERA (88% OF TIME, HAS NO PERIODS) • PALEZOIC, MESOZOIC, AND CENOZOIC ERAS DIVIDED INTO PERIODS • PERIODS HAVE LESS DRAMATIC CHANGES IN LIFE THAN ERAS • PERIODS IN THE CENOZOIC ERA ARE BROKEN IN EPOCHS • EACH NEWER ERA IS SHORTER THAN THE ONE BEFORE IT slide 10
LIFE THROUGHOUT EARTH'S HISTORY THE PRECAMBRIAN ERA: THE LONGEST, BEGAN WITH EARTH'S FORMATION • LAND, ATMOSPHERE DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT THAN TODAY • ONLY SIMPLE LIFE EXISTED, NO OXYGEN IN ATMOSPHERE • BACTERIA-LIKE ORGANISMS AROSE ABOUT 3.5 BILLION YRS. AGO • 1ST LIFE TO USE PHOTOSYNTHESIS AROSE ABOUT 2.5 BILLION YRS • USED CARBON DIOXIDE, RELEASED OXYGEN • OXYGEN ACCUMULATED IN ATMOSPHERE • OXYGEN-BREATHING CREATURES DEVELOPED (WORMS, SPONGES) slide 11
THE PALEOZOIC ERA: MARKED BY ABUNDANT FOSSIL-FORMING COMPLEX LIFE • INCLUDES THE AGE OF INVERTEBRATES, AGE OF FISH, AGE OF AMPHIBIANS • HAD A TOTAL OF 7 PERIODS, EACH MARKED BY DIFFERENT LIFE FORMS • BEGAN ABOUT 545 MILLION YEARS AGO WITH THE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION • CAMBRIAN PERIOD: 1ST PALEOZOIC PERIOD, AGE OF INVERTEBRATES • INVERTEBRATES: STILL MOST COMMON LIFE, HAVE NO BACK-BONES • MANY TYPES OF LIFE HAD BONES & SHELLS ALLOWING FOSSILIZATION • FIRST LAND PLANTS AND INSECTS APPEAR NEXT (SILURIAN PERIOD) • PLANTS NEEDED AS BASE OF FOOD CHAIN ON LAND • PHOTOSYNTHESIS CONVERTS SUNLIGHT TO FOOD, MAKE O2 slide 12
PALEOZOIC ERA (continued) • AGE OF FISH (FIRST VERTEBRATES) IN ORDOVICIAN PERIOD • FIRST LIFE FORMS TO HAVE BONY VERTEBRA, SPINAL NERVE • COLD BLOODED, USE GILLS, SCALES , LAY MANY EGGS • FIRST AMPHIBIANS APPEAR IN DEVONIAN PERIOD • SMOOTH SKIN, LAY MANY EGGS, HAVE GILLS AND LUNGS • GO THROUGH LIFE CHANGES CALLED METAMORPHOSIS • HUGE FERNS AND CONIFER FORESTS APPEAR, SOURCE OF COAL & OIL • ENERGY STORED 500 MILLION YRS AGO NOW FUEL (MISS. PER.) • CO2 STORED THEN NOW BEING RELEASED INTO ATMOSPHER E slide 13
PALEOZOIC (continued) • FIRST REPTILES, INSECTS APPEAR IN PENNSYLVANIAN PERIOD • INSECTS: HARD EXOSKELETON, SEGMENTED LEGS, 3 BODY PARTS • REPTILES: DRY SCALY SKIN, EYELIDS, LEATHERY EGGS, SIDE LEGS • PERMIAN PERIOD THE LAST IN PALEOZOIC ERA • PANGEA SUPER-CONTINENT FORMS (ONE SINGLE CONTINENT) • HUGE CRUSTAL PLATES SLIDE ON MANTLE • CONTINENTS’ EDGES ALIGNMENT INDICATE MOVEMNET • FOSSILS FROM WEST AFRICA MATCH OF EAST AMERICAS’ • MASS EXTINCTION (MASS SPECIES DEATH) MAKES THE ERA’S END • KILLS ABOUT 90-95% OF ALL LIFE ON EARTH, IN OCEANS • REPTILES AND FISH AMONG SURVIVORS slide 14
MESOZOIC ERA: PALEOZOIC SURVIVORS FILL ENVIRONMENTAL NICHES • TRIASSIC PERIOD: (~ 245 MILLION YRS AGO) MARKS AGE OF REPTILES • FIRST DINOSAURS APPEAR • FIRST MAMMALS APPEAR: SMALL, SHREW-LIKE NIGHT DWELLERS • JURASSIC: BEGINS THE AGE OF THE DINOSAURS • PANGEA BREAKS APART • FIRST BIRDS, FLYING REPTILES APPEAR • CRETACEOUS: HUGE DINOSAURS RULE EARTH • FIRST FLOWERING PLANTS ( MOST COMPLEX ) APPEAR • ENDS WITH MASS EXTINCTION BELIEVED CAUSED BY COMET • CLIMATE CHANGED, MANY SPECIES BECAME EXTINCT • DINOSAURS EXTINCT, MAMMALS AMONG SURVIVORS slide 15
CENOZOIC ERA: CURRENT ERA, SHORTEST ONE • PERIODS IN CENOZOIC BROKEN DOWN IN SMALLER UNITS CALLED EPOCHS • TERTIARY PERIOD: MARKS THE AGE OF MAMMALS (65 MILLION YRS) • MAMMALS: VERTEBRATES, HAIR, FEED YOUNG MILK, MOST LIVE BIRTH • MAMMALS ARE WARM-BLOODED- ABLE TO MAINTAIN INTERAL TEMP. • QUATERNARY PERIOD: CURRENT ONE, SHORTEST PERIOD • INCLUDES THE AGE OF MAN, 1ST ONES ABOUT 3.5 MILLION YEARS AGO • 1ST PRIMITIVE MAN- HOMO (genus) SAPIENS (species) ~ 100,000 YRS AGO • MODERN MAN DATES BACK ABOUT 40,000 YEARS slide 16
QUARTENARY HAS ICE AGES, HUGE GLACIERS, LOWER OCEAN LEVELS • ICE AGES: COLDER PLANETARY TEMPS TRAPPED WATER IN GLACIERS • ICE AGES OCCUR IN CYCLES, FOLLOWED BY GLOBAL HEATING • GLACIERS: HUGE SECTIONS OF ICE COVERING LAND • GLACIERS COVER MUCH OF NORTHERN CONTINENTS • RETREATING GLACIERS CHANGED LAND IN Pa., N.Y., GREAT PLAINS slide 17
http://www.acnatsci.org/kids/whatsthedif/whatsthediffimages/paleontologist.jpghttp://www.acnatsci.org/kids/whatsthedif/whatsthediffimages/paleontologist.jpg http://www.nps.gov/parkoftheweek/assets/photo/joda_paleontologist.jpg http://museums.state.nm.us/nmmnh/images/fossilconf.jpg http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/050408/050408_ mammoth_hmed_11a.hmedium.jpg http://www.neovenator.org/images/Kinto%20products/DCP_5071.JPG http://paleo.cc/casts/yuep3.jpg http://www.gpc.edu/~pgore/myphotos/fossils/cast&mold.jpg http://www.geology.ohio-state.edu/~vonfrese/gs100/lect29/xfig29_17.1.jpg http://www.dinosaurreproductions.com/SteveDiloposaurusFootPrint.jpg http://www.paleoworld.com/images/POOP4_jp60.jpg http://www.fossilmall.com/Science/Fossil_Amber/a253/a253e.jpg http://www.wildhorizons.com/images/Fossil_Wasp_Amber.jpg http://bluepyramid.org/ia/woolmamm.jpg http://www.twoguysfossils.com/images/mam_mammoth_tooth3_top.jpg http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/evolhorse.gif http://img.slate.com/media/37000/37488/991021_Mammoth.jpg http://faculty.weber.edu/bdattilo/images/campsognathus.jpg http://www.dickinson.edu/~nicholsa/Romnat/heckfossils.jpg http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/evolhorse.gif http://www.nwcreation.net/images/geology/geologiccolumnanimals.jpg http://www.dickinson.edu/~nicholsa/Romnat/heckskeletons.jpg http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/stratplan2003/vision/VisionFig1.jpg http://www.biosbcc.net/ocean/marinesci/02ocean/mgimg/pangea.jpg http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Pleistocene/index_files/image017.jpg http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/investigations/es2903/images/es2903_p9_uncomformity_stat.jpg http://imnh.isu.edu/geo_time/images/kaibab_lime_2.jpg http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/burian14.jpg http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/s/images/stonag_lascauxhors.lg.jpg http://www.landschaftsmuseum.de/Bilder/Hoehlenmalerei-2.jpg http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050509/gallery/outofafrica_goto.jpg http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/dept/d10/asb/anthro2003/legacy/iceman/iceman.jpeg http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/timeline/gallery/slide_45.html http://www.missouri.edu/~anthmark/courses/mah/calendar.htm http://www.uiggm.nsc.ru/engl/uiggm/Cm.jpg http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/timeline/gallery/images/045.jpg http://www.salomart.com/images/trilobites-2.jpg http://rocr.xepher.net/weblog/images/trilobites.jpg http://www2.ac-lyon.fr/enseigne/biologie/photossql/images/trilobites.jpg http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/fs/73-98/fig1.gif http://library.thinkquest.org/17456/timeall.html http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/img/environment/stromato.jpg http://www.resonancepub.com/bacteria.htm http://www.geo.arizona.edu/Antevs/nats104/00lect06.html http://www.scotese.com/images/458.jpg http://www-gerg.tamu.edu/menu_fieldProgram/McMurdo_01/Nov22/Barne%20Glacier.jpg http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/3300main_c_1999_s4_morris.jpg http://www.scotese.com/newpage1.htm http://www.farangelus.com/resources/Eurypterid_live.jpg http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~skafi/DINO.HTM http://www.universetoday.com/am/uploads/apollo_moon_crater.jpg http://www.webelements.com/webelements/elements/media/kossel-pics/K.jpg http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/acolvil/mineral/atom_structure2.jpg http://www.chem4kids.com/files/art/atom_struct1.gif http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/earthq1/san_andreas.gif http://physics.uoregon.edu/~jimbrau/BrauImNew/Chap07/FG07_23-08.jpg http://www.eccentrix.com/members/chempics/Slike/Generalchemistry/1Atom_structure.jpg http://physics.ucsd.edu/was-sdphul/labs/demos/pics/geiger.gif http://cc.usu.edu/~sharohl/lccan.jpg http://www.bartleby.com/images/A4images/A4fault.jpg http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/103951main_earth12.jpg http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jacques.delfour/Images/tournais3.jpg http://www.mnh.si.edu/museum/VirtualTour/images/vt9.gif http://www.palaeos.com/Cenozoic/Images/Protohippus.jpg http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/paleozoic/paleozoicevents.gif http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/jaeger/JOI_CD/Stelias.jpg http://www.palaeos.com/Paleozoic/Carboniferous/Images/car04b.jpg http://www.stanford.edu/group/crg/research/High_Sierra_Weather.jpg http://myweb.cwpost.liu.edu/vdivener/notes/pangea_245.gif http://www.williamsclass.com/images/JPGImages/Carbon12Decay.jpg http://geology.asu.edu/~sreynolds/glg103/images/pc_relative_break.jpg http://nte-serveur.univ-lyon1.fr/nte/geosciences/chronologie/cours/superposition.jpg photos cited...