Module 2 Quiz_ GLY1102 - Age of Dinosaurs.pdf

2/12/24, 7:32 PM Module 2 Quiz: GLY1102 - Age of Dinosaurs https://uﬂ.instructure.com/courses/499284/quizzes/1315350 1/10 Module 2 Quiz Due Jan 24 at 11:59pm Points 100 Questions 20 Available until Jan 31 at 11:59pm Time Limit None Allowed Attempts 2 Instructions This quiz was locked Jan 31 at 11:59pm. Attempt History Attempt Time Score LATEST Attempt 1 6 minutes 100 out of 100  Answers will be shown after your last attempt Score for this attempt: 100 out of 100 Submitted Jan 24 at 7:53pm This attempt took 6 minutes. This quiz should be completed after you have completed the assigned readings, watched the lectures and completed the Assignment. There is no time limit on this quiz. You have two chances so if you don't like your score, try again. Please be careful to only click "start the quiz" when you are ready to begin. 5 / 5 pts Question 1 The minerals that replace organic content in buried bones come from: Magma or lava filling in the voids left behind when a bone decomposes. minerals dissolved in groundwater precipitating (crystallizing) in/on the bones.

2/12/24, 7:32 PM Module 2 Quiz: GLY1102 - Age of Dinosaurs https://uﬂ.instructure.com/courses/499284/quizzes/1315350 2/10 the bones being exposed to the air on the Earth's surface for long periods of time. microbes in the soil in which the bone is buried. 5 / 5 pts Question 2 Fossilization typically involves which of the following processes? burial and some form of mineralization burial and some form of precipitation sedimentation and some form of oxidation cementation and compaction 5 / 5 pts Question 3 True or false: most fossils do not preserve the original organic material of a life-form. True True! Biological material is replaced by minerals after the organism in buried in most cases. False

2/12/24, 7:32 PM Module 2 Quiz: GLY1102 - Age of Dinosaurs https://uﬂ.instructure.com/courses/499284/quizzes/1315350 3/10 5 / 5 pts Question 4 The reason that the very largest organisms like titanosaurs are found as highly incomplete skeletons is because: rapid burial with sediment is difficult for very large objects. extreme weather events. the bones were very fragile. titanosaurs lived in tropical environments. 5 / 5 pts Question 5 The fossil record is highly biased towards preservation of organisms with hard parts like bones and shells. True True! Most of the insects, plants and invertebrates that lived in the past have no representation in the fossil record. False 5 / 5 pts Question 6 In the Taphonomy lecture, the focus is on a place in Canada called Dinosaurs Provincial Park. It is a great place to find fossils, but why isn't it a good place for new fossils to form?

2/12/24, 7:32 PM Module 2 Quiz: GLY1102 - Age of Dinosaurs https://uﬂ.instructure.com/courses/499284/quizzes/1315350 4/10 the modern environment has too much human intervention - people clean up dead animals before they can be preserved in sediment. the modern evironment is too cold. the modern environment is dry and barren, sot here is little sediment that could bury something that died. the modern environment is too wet, and would cause anything that died to decompose before it could be preserved. 5 / 5 pts Question 7 True or false: A great deal of information about an organism is lost between the time an organism dies and the time it is discovered by as a fossil millions of years later. True False 5 / 5 pts Question 8 The process of lithification is: the slow replacement of organic material with minerals to form a fossil. the erosion and weathering of a rock exposed on the Earth's surface.

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