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Fossil Record Test

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Cladogram
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Embryos that have a closer related form means....
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Ontogeny
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Law of Superposition
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Ernst Haeckel
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Index Fossil
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Fossils can provide evidence of....
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Finding reef fossils in the desert provide what type of evidence?
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In closer related forms, the earlier stages of embryos are...
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What can pollen fossils tell us about the past?
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The area was once covered by an ocean.
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more similar than later stages.
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The development of a species through its life cycle
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A diagram that shows relationships between species.
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they share a more recent common ancestor.
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A fossil used to determine the age of a rock layer.
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The type of plants that lived there.
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Biologist and artist whose drawings show a commonality in embryology.
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past climates, past ecosystems, past behaviors, mountain building, and past biodiversity.
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The principle that sedimentary rock layers are older than the rock layers that are above it and younger than the rock layers below it.
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The shape of fossil leaves can tell us of....
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Percentage of species that have gone extinct.
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When a species dies off from the earth.
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The study of embryos and their development.
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Any preserved evidence of a past geologic age; usually found in sedimentary rock.
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Change in heritable traits over successive generations.
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The age of an object in relation to the ages of other objects.
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The relationship of a species through a common ancestor.
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An ancestor that is shared by two or more organisms.
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The numeric age of an object or event, often found by using radiometric dating.

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