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This 44-card flashcard set covers fossils, fossil fuels, and paleontology for 8th Grade earth science. Topics include fossil types (petrified wood, ammonites, microfossils), fossil formation and dating methods, coal composition and use, and extinction theories. Use it for exam review, vocabulary practice, or supplemental study during a fossils and geological history unit.

Subject:
Science
Topic:
Earth Science
Grade Level:
8th Grade
Updated March 2024

Terms in This Set

  • marine organism
  • petrified wood
  • microfossils
  • ammonites
  • What is needed in order to have detailed impressions?
  • fossil traps
  • What happened in 2005?
  • paleontology
  • What is the modern classification system based on?
  • What conditions lead to extinction?
  • transitional forms
  • What do young earth scientist believe in?
  • Where do trilobites get their names?
  • fossil fuels
  • coal
  • anthracite
  • coal
  • Types of Natural Gases
  • What fossils fuels do we get by drilling?
  • What is the order of the coal formation?
  • sedimentary rock is most likely to contain
  • La Brea Tar Pits tell us
  • Why are fossils not forming today?
  • What types of rocks is it rare to find fossils in?
  • What do secular scientist not think
  • Charles Darwin
  • Archaeopteryx
  • Would would have been on the Arc?
  • Where is natural gas normally found?
  • fossilized land plats
  • Where can Carbon 14 be found
  • What happened when animals got trapped in the La Brea Tar Pits?
  • How do index fossils work and what are the problems with them?
  • What do most secular scientists today think the reason dinosaurs got extinct?
  • What products can contain coal?
  • Progressive Creationism
  • What is believed to have happened in Chicxulub?
  • fires in a coal mine caused
  • What are the types of fossils?
  • relative dating
  • What are the properties of the different coals?
  • cap rock
  • What are Greenhouse gases and what to they do?
  • How do old and young earth scientists view coal development differently?

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