Fossils

[gneissisnice]

Theres 2 ways to make a binder. Theres my friends way, which involves copying and pasting things from the internet, and that works sometimes, but for me, theres too much information and it takes too long to find what youre looking for. For my way, I make each page with a template like:
Physical Description
Range (time range of when it lived)
environment
behavior (mode of life, stuff like that)
and extra.
For each order (or class or suborder), put some information about when the group as a whole lived, anatomy, behavior, and stuff like that.

[Pleiades]

So i'm assuming each page is about the fossilized animal such as an insect. What types of animals do we have to know about?

[gneissisnice]

Foraminiferans (these are protists), Bryozans, graptolites, corals, arthropods, brachiopods, mollusks, echinoderms, fish, reptiles (including dinosaurs), birds, mammals, and certain plants.

[gneissisnice]

The classification goes as far down as genus, but not to species.

[dudeincolorado]

i think im gonna make one... i still cant find a good book though...BOOK HUNTING!!!! ill live

[gneissisnice]

Its also good to use the internet. Just try to use more than one source.

[Pleiades]

Is the majority of the test on fossil identification?

[dudeincolorado]

ok im goning to try to make a binder now... wish me luck

[Pleiades]

good luck!! i'll make a binder in september once the final rules come out.. and once i know that i'm ACTUALLY doing this event... knowing my luck it will probably be at the same time as reach for the stars so i wouldnt be able to do it

[dudeincolorado]

yeah...*cough team of 5*cough so im kinda garenteed this eventif i work a little

[Pleiades]

wait your team only has 5 members?

[dudeincolorado]

a tiny high school team that doesn't make it pass regionals beacuse they dont have anyone to do building events (me now...)

[Pleiades]

oh wow. didnt your division B team make it to states last year? i would think some of them would want to join the high school team

[dudeincolorado]

yeah we did pretty darnb well for being student run too. no we had 5 8th graders this year 2 of them like most of the other people with education in mind are eather zoned for a high school across town dont ask (mesed up district) or permited some where else (my school's natoriouse for being the most over crowded and the smallest building in the region even with the new new wing...)so yeah if you have parents that are all this school is better you must go there you PERMIT OUT...

[Pleiades]

ohh. most people in my grade chose to go to a private highschool outside my school's district. I dont blame them.. my school district has absolutly NO MONEY therefore we cant have any AC in the fall/spring or heat in the fall, no paper at all, most of the computers are crap, theres leaks in the roof throughout the building, the lockers are very old and are falling appart, and the building just looks very old. my school was embarrassed to go to practice meets in the next town over and at a school in the middle of the state because the schools were just so nice compared to ours. We were thinking of holding a practice meet next year but we might do it in one of the new elementary schools because we dont want any further embarassment