Fossils

[arod101]

so you guys need some help with fossils i might be man that you need of you want to have a chance in winning the state competition. contact me in two days . my website is www.google.com
or go to youtube. If you still need more help go to wikipedia.org

[dudeincolorado]

Oh my bad, i didn't realize that the cowry genus was still living, it's my bad i just learned that the informal name was cowry, sorry everyone

[froggiefrog]

random side note: The fossil tests at the 2 invitationals I have gone to this year were EXACTLY the same.

[Deeisenberg]

wow, that is lucky :p
also not good

[crazy77]

How were they? What kind of questions did they ask? Not asking for anything specific (I wouldn't want to cheat)

[gneissisnice]

A few years ago, when I was in 9th grade (still division B), my coach wrote the high school event for rocks and minerals. He made sure the high schoolers never saw it, but he was gonna go over it with us, but we never had time. At the competition, he found out that the lazy event writer took his event and modified it barely. So if our coach went over it with us, we would have known everything. Though we got 1st anyway, cause we rock at rocks.

[froggiefrog]

How were they? What kind of questions did they ask? Not asking for anything specific (I wouldn't want to cheat)

Half of it was IDing some specimens. Then, half of the other half was about the geologic time periods. The other half of this half was random questions about fossils, like formation, index fossils, and what fossils are related to each other/modern species.

[crazy77]

Thanks! That actually helps me
oh, and quick question: which feild guide is better for the competition: Smithsonian or Audobon? cuz i mean, Audobon has a lot of stuff with really good descriptions, but i find it hard 2 find the stuff in there and the Smithsonian one still seems pretty good I'm just worried about the time limit issue 4 the Audobon

[dudeincolorado]

depends, you can always tab them (there are some real ones you can get for about $3) the audobon but theres not much in the way of feeding habits, or others (like modern relatives, commonality, shtuff like that) smithsonian is wonderful no doubt on that but it doesn't cover all the specimens(about half i believe) so it depends, how are you making you binder?

[crazy77]

well i have a page for each phylum and a page for each genus under each of the phylums basically (along with some notes on modes of preservation, types of rocks, etc. in the beginning) i've kinda already decided 2 go with the Smithsonian though I think it should be good enough I'm starting 2 get rlly nervous cuz the competition is in 2 days!!!!!!!!! i have everything done, but i'm just worried i won't know a lot of things and/or it won't be in my binder!