Types of Fossils

Types of Fossils

Multiple Choice

A person who studies fossils is called a ______________?

• Paleontologist

• Veterinarian

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What is a fossil?

• living tissue

• preserved remains of body parts or activities

• man-made model

• a painting

Multiple Choice

Which of these is a fossil?

• dinosaur model made from plastic

• drawing of a dinosaur

• dinosaur remains preserved in rocks

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is most likely to become a fossil?

• a fern that is killed in a forest fire

• a crocodile that is buried in sediment

• a dinosaur whose body is broken down by fungi

Multiple Select

Which are two statements are true. Select 2.

• Fossils tell the color of an organisms skin.

• Fossils are clues to what life was like in the past.

• Fossils help scientist learn how the Earth has changed

• Fossils help scientist identify a species population.

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Which of the following can preserve original remains of an organism?

• amber

• ice

• tar

• warm water

Multiple Choice

Which type of fossil is the empty hollow left behind when an organism’s body completely dissolves away?

• mold

• cast

• amber

• petrified

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Which type of fossil is not of a body part but a mark left by an organism?

• mold

• trace

• amber

• cast

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What type of fossil is made when sediments fill in the hollow made by a dissolved organism?

• mold

• trace

• petrified

• cast

Multiple Choice

What type of fossil is this?

• mold

• cast

• amber

• trace

Multiple Choice

what type of fossil is this?

• cast

• mold

• trace

• amber