Fossils

Two students who live near Dallas found fossils in rocks near their homes. They constructed a model of an ocean or sea to show the environment they thought was there when the fossils were created. Which of the following fossils found would provide evidence that this was the correct environment to model?

• Fern leaves
• Dinosaur bone
• insect imprint
• clam shell

Which sentence best describes the formation of sedimentary rock?

• Lava erupts from a volcano, cools, and turns into hard rock.
• Small pieces of sediment settle in a basin and are cemented and pressed together.
• Rock buried deep within the Earth changes under pressure to a new kind of rock
• Magma cools beneath the surface of the Earth, forming large rock crystals

• Nautilus and small fish
• clam and small fish
• Large fish and Nautilus
• Snail and small fish

• A
• B
• C
• D

• THE FOSSILS ARE FROM ANIMALS THAT DIG TUNNELS AND LIVE UNDER GROUND
• THE FOSSILS ARE FROM AND OCEAN ANIMAL THAT CHANED ITS SHAPE MANY TIMES
• THE FOSSILS ARE FROM ANIMALS THAT LIVED IN THE SEA THAT ONCE COVERED THIS AREA
• THE FOSSILS ARE FROM OCEAN ANIMALS THAT CHANGED SO THEY COULD LIVE ON LAND

• A
• B
• C
• D

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• 2
• 3
• 4

• A
• B
• C
• D

• LAYER M
• LAYER N
• LAYER O
• LAYER P

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• LAYER 4
• LAYER 6