This page and linked posts are for the 2020-2021 Calkins Middle School Science Olympiad FOSSIL team.

I will add material weekly from December 2020 until the competition in June.   Each entry will appear as a link on this page and will include the date it was added after the link.  Similar, and in some cases identical files, can be found in older Science Olympiad directories on this site, but each of you can better track your progress against expectations if you use this directory where new material is added weekly and in sequence.

General Material: — click on the link in green

• Fossil Rules  — please read/understand (Dec. 5)                                      Note: Parts a-c of the competition section may not be 100% correct given the online testing process that will be used, but the question topics allow you to appreciate what could be asked.
• 2020_Fossil_List  We will review each and each one between late November and early February  (Dec. 5)
• Geologic Time Scale vertical—  the better you know this and appreciate the magnitude of the times represented here, the better you can grasp geologic history and the animals that have thrived and then gone extinct in geologic time (Dec. 21)
• This link is also a very good short summary of the 4 major Geologic Eras and how they relate to the fossil record you will be learning
• GeologicTime Scale horizontal – another version (Dec, 21)
• taxonomy – Biologic Classification from Kingdom to Genus/species (Dec 21)
• environments – mostly definitions of where animals lived and how they fed (December 26)
• Fossil Preservation (January 9)
• Invertebrate Definitions (January 15)
• Major Extinction Events (single summary page)  (January 21)
• Vertebrate Definitions (January 31)
• Sedimentary Rocks (January 31)
• Supercontinents (February 20)

Introduction to Fossils:

1. Forams, Sponges, Bryozoa, Graptolites posted Dec  21
2. Cnidaria     posted 12/21
3. Arthropods posted 12/26
4. Brachiopods posted 12/26
5. Mollusca posted 1/3
6. Echinodermata posted 1/9
7. Fish posted 1/15
8. Amphibians and Reptiles posted 1/15
9.  Dinosaurs_ Saurischia 1/21
10. Dinosaurs_ Ornithischia 1/21
11. Dinosaur Summary Page  1/21
12. Birds and Mammals 1/24
13. Plants 1/24

QUIZZES

Quiz 1 – December 26 (updated January 1)                                                Quiz 2  – January 3                                                                                                              Quiz 3 – January 9                                                                                                              Quiz 4 – January 15                                                                                                    Quiz 5 – January 21                                                                                                      Quiz 6  – January 31                                                                                                    Snow Day worksheet – Feb 2                                                                                Quiz 7 – February 5                                                                                                            Fossil Stamp Quiz  –  February 6                                                                         Quiz 8 – February 12                                                                                                  Full Test – February 20                                                                                                Full Test Answers— February 20                                                                          Test #2 Questions  February 26                                                                                Test #2 Station Figures  February 26                                                                    Test #2 Blank Answer Form   February 26                                                      Test 2 – Answers  (February 26)                                                                                Quiz 9 – March 3