FOSSIL ACTIVITY QUESTIONS

1. Which layer is the oldest? How do you know?

2. What fossil species can be found in Layer 1?

3. What fossil species appeared sometime between Layer 1 and 2?

4. Did any changes occur in species between Layer 2 and 3? Did any changes occur in species abundance?

5. Which species became extinct between Layer 3 and 4?

6. Which species appeared between Layer 3 and 4?

7. Between which layers does a “mass extinction” seem to have occurred?

8. Which species survived the mass extinction?

9. What do you think you would find in Layer 7? Explain. (HINT: would there be more, less or the same species diversity? What kinds of species may be present? Would the fish survive?)

10. If you knew that fossil A and C were fresh water and fossil G was marine, what would you say happened in this area?

11. If the same amount of time passed between each layer, which fossil thrived the longest?

12. Which layer shows the greatest biological diversity? Explain.