Forams Quiz Answers
Question 1. What is a foram?
Answer: A Unicellular creature that secretes a test is a Foram
Question 2. Where can forams be found?
Answer: Forams are only found in the deep ocean - by deep we mean far from any
Question 3. What does benthic mean?
Answer: Benthic means bottom-dwelling. Benthic Foraminifera
are those forams which live along the ocean bottom.
Question 4. What can be determined by examing foram
Answer: All of the above can be determined by studying forams:
the age of sediment, past current patterns, and the location of underwater
Question 5. Can understanding past conditions help
to predict future conditions?
Answer: Understanding past conditions is key to understanding future ones
Question 6. What is a test?
Answer: A test is both a protective covering and defense mechanism of forams
Question 7. Which of the following could compose
Answer: A test could be composed of any of the following: silica, calcium carbonate,
rock and sand debris.
Question 8. Foram evolution does not correlate with
Answer: False, forams correlate very strongly with the evolution of other creatures
Question 9. Ice Ages affect forams environment.
Answer: True, Ice Ages do affect forams environments
Question 10. The exact age of forams can not be determined.
Answer: False, ratio-isotope studies on elements such as radioactive carbon present
in the fossilized forams can be used to estimate their age