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Stories from the Fossil Record - WebQuest
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/explorations/tours/stories/middle/intro.html
Use this portion of the website to define the following terms related to fossils.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/explorations/tours/stories/guide/index.html
1. abiotic 2. biodiversity 3. biotic factors 4. climate 5. dispersal 6. ecosystem 7. index fossils 8. marine 9. mass extinction 10. paleoecology 11. terrestrial 12. uplift –
Evidence:
Past Lives
1. growth rings in fossil trees or
shells
2. curled up fossil trilobites
3. the contents of fossil nests
4. fossils of many individuals of
the same species together
5. a change in the shape of a
feature over time
What it tells us:
Geologic Time
1. layers in the rocks
2. index fossil
3. fossil shells on mountaintops
4. identical fossils on widely
separated continents
Paleoecology
1. fossil marine animals in the
desert
2. shapes of leaf edges
3. tooth marks in fossil shells
4. fossil pollen
Biodiversity
1. fossils of organism no longer
alive today
2. features that are shared by
more than one species
3. the extinction of m any fossil
species at the same time
4. the extinction of one group of
organism, like corals, on which
other organisms depend