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ANTH 101 Practice Test Questions with Correct Answers Explain how fossils are formed and why they are not equally prevalent in all areas. - Answer-fossils are the remains of past life forms that have been partially or wholly transformed into rock and displaced through a long process of chemical replacement. minerals in bones and teeth are replaced with rock forming minerals like iron and silica. can be from any body part however 99% are made up of teeth and and bones. taphonomy (how fossils a...

BIO112 Spring 2024 Exam 1 Terms radiometric dating general approach used to determine the age of specimens using the rate of decay of radioactive isotopes radiocarbon dating a chemical analysis used to determine the age of organic materials based on their content of the radioisotope carbon-14 potassium-40 dating radiometric dating method often used in the assessment of volcanic intrusions in sedimentary layers. It is based on measurement of the product of the radioactive decay of an isot...

World Scholars Cup Study Guide Rated A+ Aulos Greek musical instrument Borobudur Buddhist temple Carbon Dating a scientific method of determining the age of a living thing CNN Opera contemporary opera showing current events Cloud Forensics process of investigating cloud environments diorama 3D model Entomologist person who studies insects Farb historical reenactor Dendrochronology science of technique of dating events Entomologist person who studies insects Diorama - 3D Model Farb hi...

World History A – Primavera Questions and Answers Rated A read the sentence . relating to the New Stone Age from around 9000 BC to 3000 BC is best defined as _[blank]_ . which term best completes the sentence ? neolithic match each term to its correct definition . hominid = human-like primatepre historic = occurring before recorded history settlement = location where groups ceased roaming and built permanent dwellings which best defines dendrochronology ? the science of dating a tree throu...

fossil - ANSWERthe traces or remains of an organism preserved in rock fossilization - ANSWERthe process of fossil formation that occurs under certain conditions 1. suitable remains 2. quick burial 3. mineralizing context (petrifaction) adapiform - ANSWERone of a group of early primates that lived between 56 and 34 mya relative dating - ANSWERbased on "Principle of Superposition" where the oldest layer at the bottom and youngest layer at the top chronometric dating (absolute dat...

Earth Science Lab Final (Answered) Complete Verified Solution Noncomformity 1) Younger sedimentary rocks on top of older metamorphic or intrusive igneous rocks 2) Imply period of uplift of deeply buried rocks Three types of uncomformities angular uncomformity, disconformity, and noncomformity Radiocarbon dating Using the carbon-14 isotope to date very recent events (Half-life of carbon-14 is only 5,730 years) (Only useful for dating events from historic past and very recent geolog...

Aulos - ans Greek musical instrument Borobudur - ans Buddhist temple Carbon Dating - ans a scientific method of determining the age of a living thing CNN Opera - ans contemporary opera showing current events Cloud Forensics - ans process of investigating cloud environments diorama - ans 3D model Entomologist - ans person who studies insects Farb - ans historical reenactor Dendrochronology - ans science of technique of dating events

AQA AS Physical Chemistry 2024 exam questions with 100% correct answers Who described atoms as solid spheres that make up different elements and when? - ANSWERS John Dalton in the 19th century Who suggested that atoms of a particular element had the same mass and atoms of different elements had different masses and when? - ANSWERS John Dalton in 1803 Who discovered the electron and when? - ANSWERS JJ Thomson, 1897 discovered electrons proving atoms weren't indivisible or solid. New m...

3 mechanisms for prokaryot genetic recombination - 1.)Transformation 2.)Conjugation 3.)Transduction Absolute dating - -Radioactive isotopes decay over regular annual time periods (half-lives) -C14 5,700 yrs - radioactive isotopes vs stable isotopes -stable isotopes stay the same after the organism dies Alexander Fleming - -Discovered Penicillin -microbe v. microbe interaction -Capitalized on mistake in the lab, left plate out and fungus grew on it Algae - -Protist -plant like; photoau...

SCI 225 - Final ExamLouis Agassiz - correct answer european alps glacier hypothesis (striation) HMS Challenger - correct answer The first major oceanographic expedition - fossils different in cold and warm areas Milutin Milankovitch - correct answer change in orbital parameters forces climate change related orbital cycles to ice ages frank libby - correct answer Carbon dating can be used to determine how old substances are Cesare Emiliani - correct answer Used sediment cores to esti...