Tell whether the statement is true or false: direct quotations should constitute no more than ten percent of the total words of the research paper.

Heat from earths interior and pressure from overlying rock transform the remains of marine sediments into

Which of the following must be true for a fossil organism to be useful as an index fossil? a. the fossil organism must be widespread geographically. b. the fossil organism must be abundant. c. the fossil organism must be limited to a short span of geologic time. d. all of the above.

Astudent sees several ants walking up a wall following the exact same trail that an ant took earlier. she wants to apply the scientific method to determine how the ants detected the trail. which of these steps would come first in her application of the scientific method? perform an experiment by cleaning the scent away from part of the trail. draw a conclusion that the ants follow a scent trail. make a prediction about what the ants will do after she cleans away part of the trail. hypothesize that the ants are following a scent trail that the first ant left.