What is the study of rock layers called?
Flora
Paleobiology
Stratigraphy
Cladistics
What do paleontologists use to carefully remove fossils from the ground?
Brushes and small tools
What is a fossil?
The preserved remains of an ancient plant or animal.
What is the name of study about ancient climates?
Stratigraphy
Paleoclimate
Fauna
Taphonomy
What is the difference between flora and fauna?
Flora refers to plants, while fauna refers to animals.
What does a paleontologist study?
Fossils and ancient life.
What is taphonomy?
Study of ancient life through fossil records.
Climate conditions of the geological past.
The study of how organisms decay and become fossilized
Method of classifying species based on common ancestry.
What is the process of digging up fossils called?
Excavation.
What does "extinct" mean?
A species that no longer exists.
What is the name of the process that turns sediment into rock?
Lithification
Stratigraphy
Taphonomy
Cladistics
What do scientists do to fossils to learn more about them?
Analyze them
What is a dinosaur that only eats plants called?
Herbivore.