4th Grade Fossils

Which type of coal contains the most carbon and burns hottest?

• peat
• anthracite
• lignite
• bituminous

_______ are the remains of once-living things that have been preserved.

• Petroleum
• Mold
• Cast
• Fossils

What Type of fossils are formed when minerals take the place of once-living things?

• petrified
• amber
• mold
• peat

What kind of gas is used for cooking and heating?

• petroleum
• coal
• natural gas
• lignite

What kind of fossil is created when an imprint is left by a plant or animal?

• Mold
• Cast
• Peat
• Lignite

Heat and pressure may destroy most of the buried remains of a plant or animal and leave a tiny covering called _____.

• fossil cast
• carbon film
• petrified fossil
• tar pits

Fossils that show how long-dead animals changed their environment are called _________.

• peat
• trace fossils
•  natural gas
• coal

Minerals that fill a mold and have the same shape of the original living thing

• Cast
• Fossil
• Lignite
• Peat

Any fuel formed from the remains of once-living organisms

• Peat
• Natural gas
• Fossil fuels
• Electricity

Fuel that is mainly used intransportation

• Petroleum
• Natural gas
• Solar
• Wind