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10 years ago
Rank the fossils of organisms A–E from most common to least common. If two fossils have the same commonness, overlap them

Description      Organism A   Organism B   Organism C   Organism D   Organism E
soft body with no skeleton   ×   ×   ×   ×   
soft body covered by hard shell               ×
lives where sediment is not being deposited         ×   ×   
lives near the shore of a river or ocean   ×   ×         ×
large population and long existence   ×      ×      ×
small population and short existence      ×      ×   
lives where oxygen content is low   ×   ×         ×
lives where oxygen content is high         ×   ×   
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10 years ago
The chart is difficult to read.
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10 years ago
Factors b,d,e,g are favorable to fossil formation and preservation.
Hard bodies are more easily preserved; rivers and oceans deposit muds that keep bodies intact for long times after death; large population and long existence provide more opportunity for fossils to form; and a low oxygen content impedes decay and inhibits predators.
Factors a,c,f,h are unfavorable to fossil formation and preservation.

Thus, Organism E with 4 positive factors is number 1 -- has the top chance of forming a fossil.
Organism D with 4 negative factors would be number 5 -- has very little chance of forming fossils.
Of the other 3, all have soft bodies, so are "disadvantaged" compared to E...but
Organism A has no OTHER disadvantages, so is probably number 2 (second best fossil chance).
Organism C has ALMOST everything going against it -- despite its large population and long existence, it has no other positive factors -- so I'd put it at number 4 (second worst).

To summarize, my rankings are
1. E, 2. A, 3. B, 4. C, 5. D
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