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6. What is the main idea of the lecture?
- A. Fossils are important indicators of a region’s economic potential.
- B. Fossils make it possible for us to form opinions about evolution.
- C. Fossils help geologists predict where climate change will occur.
- D. Fossils provide clues to our geologic and environmental history.
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7. According to the lecture, what important contribution came from a nineteenth–century British canal builder?
- A. The development of a more efficient method of digging canals
- B. The first detailed scientific writings about the existence of fossils
- C. The discovery that each rock layer held a distinctive fossil content
- D. The invention of a simple system of classifying and naming fossils
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8. According to the professor, how does the correlation of rocks in different places contribute to scientific understanding?
- A. Correlation helps us identify the best locations for building canals.
- B. Correlation provides information about the geologic history of Earth.
- C. Correlation encourages geologists and other scientists to work together.
- D. Correlation reveals that certain organisms lived only on one continent.
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9. Why does the professor talk about the principle of fossil succession?
- A. To explain how fossils can indicate the age of rock layers
- B. To show that the study of fossils is very complex
- C. To compare fossil succession with other theories about fossils
- D. To state that fossil succession occurred differently around the world
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10. Listen again to part of the lecture. Then answer the question.

What does the professor mean by this statement:
- A. Fossils of extinct species will not appear in higher layers of rock.
- B. It takes a very long time for fossils to disappear from solid rock.
- C. Geologists have never been able to explain the absence of some fossils.
- D. The fossil record is a permanent description of the earth’s history.
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11. Why does the professor say this:
- A. To describe some of the most beautiful fossils ever discovered
- B. To compare the fossils found in two different layers of rock
- C. To illustrate how fossils are clues about the past environment
- D. To explain why water must be present for the formation of fossils
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