Lesson 1 and 2 Review

A hollow area in sediment in the shape of an organism or part of an organism is

• Cast
• mold
• trace fossil
• petrified fossil

A solid copy of the shape of an organism is 

• mold
• carbon film
• cast
• fossil record

What type of fossils provide evidence of the activities of ancient organisms

• molds and casts
• petrified fossils
• trace fossils
• carbon films

Which of the following substances is not able to preserve entire organisms

• stick tar
• water
• amber
• ice

An organism is __________if it no longer exists and will never live again.

• evolved
• extinct
• fossilized
• sedimentary

The preserved remains or traces of living things

• carbon film
• fossils
• sedimentary rock
• paleonrologist

The process by which all the different kinds of living things have changed over long periods of time 

• extinct
• fossils
• evolution
• carbon film

a scientist who studies fossils

• palentologist
• fossils
• sedimentary
• extinct

The number of years that have passed since the rock formed is the rocks

• relative age
• law of superpostion
• absolute age
• index fossil

The age of a rock compared to the ages of other rocks is the rocks

• absolute age
• geological age
• sedimentary age
• relative age