Fossils

What information can a fossilized plant give scientists?

• what color the plants were long ago
• what kind of animals existed long ago
• what dinosaurs looked like long ago
• what environments were like long ago

What can scientists learn from studying plant fossils?

• how long ago the plant lived
• how the plant became extinct
• how many plants were in the area
• how many animals were in the area

A family was hiking on a mountain and found several fossils, including a shark tooth and a clam shell.  How has the area changed?

• It used to warmer.
• It used to be colder.
• It used to be an ocean.
• It used to be a desert.

Finding warm-weather plant fossils in the layers of a cold northern island suggests that

• the fossils are used to  cold
• the climate used to be warmer
• the area used to be located further south
• the people used to eat the plants

Which is an example of a fossil?

• a footprint in a rock
• a seashell under water
• a leaf in a puddle
• a bone on top of the ground

How could there be fossils of ocean animals in states that are hundreds of miles from the sea?

• Lots of the same animals live in those states too.
• Groundwater must have carried to fossils to those states.
• Seawater must have covered those states at one time.
• Animals carried the fossils to those states.

What does this fossil of a leaf most likely show?

• The plant was eaten by an animal.
• The plant lived a long time ago.
• The plant died on a rock.
• The plant lived on rocky places.

What does this fossil have in common with a living leaf?

• It has the same shape.
• It has tissue of a real leaf.
• It stores energy.
• It was dug from the earth.