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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.
    Extinct
    Fossil
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  • The hardened remains of living thing that died long ago.
    Fossil
    Extinct
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  • Why are there more animal fossils than plant fossils?
    Plants have softer body parts than animals.
    Plants are smaller than animals.
    Animals eat plants.
    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 mineral
    a footprint
    a cast
    a trace
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  • Which is an imprint fossil?
    Petrified wood
    bone
    an animal track
    a cast
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  • In which type of rock are most fossils found?
    metamorphic
    igneous
    sedimentary
    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?
    what fish were like today
    that this fish lacked oxygen
    that water once covered the area
    what kind of animal ate this fish
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  • Which term describes this fossil?
    bone
    amber
    mold
    cast
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  • How are an elephant and a mammoth alike?
    both live in a warm climate
    both have tusks
    both have thick, shaggy fur
    both are extinct
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  • Which sentence is TRUE?
    Fossils show that camels have not changed.
    Some living things have not changed in millions of years.
    All once-living organisms left behind fossils.
    Fossils show that the coelacanth fish has changed.
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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?
    They rotted away.
    Minerals destroyed them.
    Animals ate them all.
    They were trapped in tar.
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  • Which animal is extinct?
    camel
    elephant
    rhinoceros
    saber-toothed cat
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  • What replaces the wood of a once-living tree to form petrified wood?
    a cast
    amber
    a mold
    minerals
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  • why are there many fossil imprints of ferns?
    Once, most plants on Earth were ferns.
    Ferns have changed little over time.
    Fern parts are hard like bone.
    Ferns were larger than other ancient plants.
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