fossils

fossil

Multiple Choice

How do scientists learn about dinosaurs?

• by studying fossils

• by reading about them

• by watching movies

• by looking at pictures

Multiple Choice

Which is NOT a way an organism could become a fossil?

• It can be frozen in ice.

• It can be quickly buried in sediment after death.

• It can be trapped in the resin of a tree.

• It can be left out in the sun to decompose.

Multiple Choice

Which rock type would be best to find fossils?

• Igneous Rock

• Sedimentary Rock

• Metamorphic Rock

Multiple Choice

Which is NOT a reason scientists study fossils?

• They tell us how long a species existed on Earth.

• To learn how organisms are related to each other.

• How organisms communicated with each other.

• Fossils tell scientists the types of environments that organisms lived in.

Multiple Choice

When something is _____________________ it no longer

exists.

• extinct

• preserved

• endangered

• rotting

Multiple Choice

The remains of an organism studied by scientists is called a ____________.

• paleontologist

• fossil

• dinosaur

• shark

Multiple Choice

_______________is a scientist who studies fossils.

• geologist

• fossilologist

• paleontologist

• extinct

Multiple Choice

Why are there more animal fossils than plant fossils?

• Animals are smaller than plants.

• Plants have harder bodies than animals.

• Plans have softer bodies than animals.

• Animals eat plants.

Multiple Choice

The hardened remains of a living thing that died long ago.

• fossil

• extinct

• endangered

• minerals

Multiple Choice

Describes a group of living things that are no longer living.

• fossil

• extinct

• endangered

• dinosaur