Fossilization - class-X
Description: fossilization | |
Number of Questions: 36 | |
Created by: Amit Pandey | |
Tags: origin and evolution of life heredity and evolution biology |
Which of the following isotopes is used for finding the fossil age maximum about $35,0000$ years?
Which statement is correct?
Few fossils of man like bones have been discovered in Ethiopia and Tanzania about 2 - 4mya, they were probably not taller than 4 feet but walked up right. It is related with:
Read the following statements about fossilization:
(i) Animals and plants get fossilised and preserved in volcanic ash.
(ii) Replacement of organic parts by mineral decomposition is called Petrification which occurs only of hard parts, e.g. bones.
(iii) Casts are prints of leaves, stem, etc in soft mud which become fossilised.
(iv) Fossils present in the upper strata of earth are older than those present in lower strata. Of the above statements:Which of these is not a living fossil?
If the fossil of an organism is found in the deeper layers of earth, then we can predict that
Age of fossils can be detected by
The richest source of fossils is
If the fossil of an organism is found in deep layers of earth, then we can predict that
Reptilian feature of Archaeopteryx is
Cladistic taxonomy places the birds as Archosaurs, along with the
The skull of Pithecanthropus was found in
Age of fossils in the past was generally determined by radio-carbon method and other methods involving radioactive elements found in the rocks. More precise methods, which were used recently and led to the revision of the evolutionary periods for different groups of organisms, includes
Which is Jiving fossil
Which of the following is the method to form fossils?
Which of the following types of fossils are formed when mineral replaces all parts of the organism and entire animal transformed into stone?
............ is a process of fossilisation that occurs when an organism is buried.
The oldest fossil record of blue-green alga is 2.9 billion years old. It is :
K - T boundary is boundary present between rocks of
In which era did the Himalayas and Alps emerge
Oldest fossils of land animals consist of
Amber is
Carbon dating was invented by
Fossils of oldest land animals date back to
Study of rocks, their mineral composition and origin is
Determining the age of geological structures like fossils and rocks is called
Assertion : Ginkgo biloba is a living fossil.
Reason : Organism which have persisted and remain unchanged for the past
several million years while their relative disappeared.
Which of the following is the relatively most accurate method for dating of fossils -
The age of rock is calculated on the basis of _____________.
Fossil $X$ can be considered to have evolved earth than fossil $Y$ if _________________.
Remains of an organism of a former geological age is known as ...........
Choose the correct answers from the alternatives given .
The fossil record offers direct evidence for common descent because you can
Foot prints, trails, tracks and tunnels of various organisations made in mud are rapidly filled in with sand and covered by sediments. This is an example of which of the following types of fossil?
Which of the following is relatively more accurate method of determining the age of fossils?
When was the first nuclear reactor built
Choose the correct answers from the alternatives given:
The first true hominids in the fossil record have been placed in the genus