Fossils

[froggiefrog]

For my competition, they had half as many stations as teams, and the half of the teams did the written test while the other half did stations.
By the way, there were several questions about identifying rocks on our test. A lot about modes of preservation, too.

[blufoster6]

In my comp there was about 15 stations & 12 teams there all together & half of the teams would go first & then the other half(it was like that for all the study events)

[Flavorflav]

They base it off of the number of teams. So with 20 teams a spot, it would be 20 stations. I dont remember how many teams are at states, and Im too lazy to check, but divide the total number of teams by 3 and that will be the amount of stations.

That is not correct. The number of stations is entirely up to the event writer and may be determined by the content to be covered or the specimens available rather than the number of teams. Obviously one has to accommodate all of the teams in a block (which is 18 at West Point), but one could do that by having two sets of nine stations. I know they did that a couple of years ago in Metric Mastery.

Yes, but the writer of the NY test is also the coach of my Jr. High, and that's always how he does it.

But weren't there 20 stations at the regional? There were only 15 teams per hour.

[LEATH DEMON]

I need info on Cypraea...
I have tried looking it up online, but the only info I get is from people trying to sell their shells.
Specifically, I just need the time period

[gneissisnice]

That is not correct. The number of stations is entirely up to the event writer and may be determined by the content to be covered or the specimens available rather than the number of teams. Obviously one has to accommodate all of the teams in a block (which is 18 at West Point), but one could do that by having two sets of nine stations. I know they did that a couple of years ago in Metric Mastery.

Yes, but the writer of the NY test is also the coach of my Jr. High, and that's always how he does it.

But weren't there 20 stations at the regional? There were only 15 teams per hour.

I have no recollection. I plead the 5th.

[LabRat]

Google "Cypraea jurassic" - it evolved in Jurassic and is living now.

[oh joy]

how does one distinguish between a baculite, a belemnite, and an ortheosareassasasasa....whatever it is?

[gneissisnice]

Based on the suture pattern. Orthoceras is a nautiloid; it has a simple, straight suture pattern. Baculites is an ammonite; it had a complex suture pattern. The sutures almost look like some kind of weird flowers. Belemnites have no sutures. Rather than living inside the fossilized remain, the remains were actually the endoskeleton.

[dudeincolorado]

Also orthoceras has a rounded end, bacculite a pointed end, and bellamite like a rounded pointed end like a hill with a little cone on it, but suters are WAY more reliable

[croman74]

Hey, gniess, is there any way that I could 3 hole punch you and stuff you in my binder? Cause you're probably the best info there is.