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Fossil Activity

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Last updated over 4 years ago
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Before Activity Questions
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Level Easy
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5
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Level Medium
7
6
2
Level Hard
7
4
2

The activity is found in the link below

https://www.amnh.org/ology/features/layersoftime/game.php

Be aware that the levels in the link will not necessarily be exactly the same as the ones below.

You will have to watch the view and go through the site to find the answers to the questions below.

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are created

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Over millions of years, sedimentary rock layers from sand, slit, dead plants and animals.

The and become fossils, a of that time

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The time span that a species exists can be seen as a “column” Extending through the rock .

Once the species becomes , it from the and this column ends

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Easy

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Organize these organisms in the order in which they appeared, from younguest (top) to oldest (bottom). (Hover over each fossil type to look at the names)

  1. trilobite

  2. homo sapiens

  3. protorosaurs

  4. dyrosaurs

  5. pterosaur

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Extra Credit: Level Easy

In the link click on the game and redo level easy. After you check your work you need to put the screenshot below

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Medium

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Fill out the table using the information from the question above.

Extinct BEFORE the apperance of flowering plants

Extinct AFTER the apperance of flowering plants

NOT extinct

Protorosaurs

Sharks

Postosaurs

Itchyosaurs

Mutitiuberculates

Trilobites

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Extra Credit: Level Medium

In the link click on the game and redo level medium. After you check your work you need to put the screenshot below

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Hard

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Which 4 organisms lived only for a relatively short period of geologic time?

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Extra Credit: Level Hard

In the link click on the game and redo level hard. After you check your work you need to put the screenshot below