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How have scientists come to understand what life looked like long ago and how does this explain where fossil fuels came from?
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Did any ancient civilizations develop myths about tornadoes in order to explain how or why they occur?
They looked like neurons.
By Knowing the average speed of a plate what can scientists estimate about Earth's continents?
Knowledge of Earth's plate tectonics allows seismologists, geologists, and various other scientists to predict what the face of the planet will look like in future, and what it has looked like in the past.
How will data from space probes help us understand the earth's environment?
data from space probes will help us understand the earth's environment because if the probes go to a different planet or moon that have the same early atmosphere as earth once had,then that data could reveal the earths early days and how earth looked but
Is marble a renewable resource?
i looked everywhere on the internet and found it to be nonrenewable
Explain Wegener's theory of continental drift?
Wegeners theory was that the tectonic plates in the earth were moving and colliding with each other due to temperature changes and convection currents at the core of the earth. Due to these plates moving, he thought that continents were drifting apart from each other, he then looked at a map of the earth and concluded that certain continents such as Africa and South America looked as if they had been joined previously as they seemed to fit together like peices of a jigsaw puzzle.
What have scientists learned about past life on earth from the fossil record?
Scientists have learned about extinct species, what they looked like, their geographic distributions, their relative abundances, how they lived, and their period of existence.
Did scientists reject the theory of continental drift because the theory failed to explain why rocks on different continents looked the same?
yes
Did oviraptor steal eggs?
Oviraptors did, but scientists found a fossil of one sitting on a clutch of eggs which looked like the eggs from Protoceratops . They were actually Oviraptor eggs. The scientists thought that Oviraptor died when it found the eggs
What can a paleontoloist tell from fossil footprints of a dinosaur?
Scientists can learn many things. They can learn how large a dinosaur was, what it looked like, what it ate, and how it moved, to name a few things.
What have scientists looked for in the past while doing research?
stuff
What did fossil fule animals look like?
They looked like fish and birds.
How did scientists learn about the sun?
when they looked at it they went blind so they learned that people went blind when they looked at the sun
Why have fossils been useful to scientists?
Fossils show scientists how the animals and plants of the past looked and gives them an idea of how they might have interacted.
How do scientists get info about dinosaures?
Scientists get information about dinosaurs from fossils and they are able to trace DNA and find out how dinosaurs looked, ate, hunted and lived.
What were thinkers who looked for natural laws to explain economics called?
physiocrats
Where was the first fossil in Alberta found?
It was found near the Badlands in Drumheller.
How can a fossil provide a snapshot of a moment in time?
A fossil bed can show all of the local creatures in their living positions and provide paleontologists with an idea of what an ancient ecosystem looked like.
