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Fossils

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    Questions about fossils.
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  • A group of living things that is no longer living.
    Fossil
    Extinct
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  • The hardened remains of living thing that died long ago.
    Extinct
    Fossil
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  • Why are there more animal fossils than plant fossils?
    Animals eat plants.
    Plants are smaller than animals.
    Plants have softer body parts than animals.
    There were more ancient animals than ancient plants.
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  • Which type of fossil would look like an actual body part of a once-living thing?
    a trace
    a footprint
    a cast
    a mineral
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  • Which is an imprint fossil?
    bone
    a cast
    an animal track
    Petrified wood
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  • In which type of rock are most fossils found?
    sedimentary
    igneous
    metamorphic
    volcanic
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  • A fossil animal has a mouth full of sharp, pointed teeth. What can you infer about the animal?
    The animal ate fruits and vegetables.
    The animal is closely related to a shark.
    The animal ate meat.
    The animal did not live on land.
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  • If scientists found this fossil, what could they infer?
    that this fish lacked oxygen
    that water once covered the area
    what kind of animal ate this fish
    what fish were like today
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  • Which term describes this fossil?
    cast
    bone
    mold
    amber
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  • How are an elephant and a mammoth alike?
    both have thick, shaggy fur
    both are extinct
    both live in a warm climate
    both have tusks
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  • Which sentence is TRUE?
    Fossils show that the coelacanth fish has changed.
    Fossils show that camels have not changed.
    All once-living organisms left behind fossils.
    Some living things have not changed in millions of years.
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  • Which of these must happen first for a fossil to form?
    Sediments are pressed together and hardened.
    A plant or animal is covered by sediment.
    A plant of animal is eaten.
    Sediments fill a mold and form a cast.
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  • Why don't we know what many ancient plants looked like?
    Animals ate them all.
    Minerals destroyed them.
    They were trapped in tar.
    They rotted away.
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  • Which animal is extinct?
    camel
    saber-toothed cat
    rhinoceros
    elephant
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  • What replaces the wood of a once-living tree to form petrified wood?
    amber
    a cast
    minerals
    a mold
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  • why are there many fossil imprints of ferns?
    Fern parts are hard like bone.
    Ferns were larger than other ancient plants.
    Once, most plants on Earth were ferns.
    Ferns have changed little over time.
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