Rock & Fossil Vocab Quiz Review

What are the remains of an entire organism called?

• Cast Fossil

• Body Fossil

• Mold Fossil

• Trace Fossil

What is an animal's footprints, burrows, or tracks called?

• Mold Fossil

• Body Fossil

• Trace Fossil

• Cast Fossil

What is formed when minerals and mud fill the fossil and takes the shape of the once living organism?

• Mold Fossil

• Cast Fossil

• Body Fossil

• Trace Fossil

What is formed when water seeps into the rock and breaks down the hard parts of the organism leaving behind an imprint of the plant or animal in the rock?

• Mold Fossil

• Cast Fossil

• Trace Fossil

• Body Fossil

Naturally occurring, solid aggregates of one or more minerals that make up the Earth’s crust are called

• Fossils

• Rocks

• Paleontologists

• Magma

What is a type of rock that forms from tiny particles called sediment, which forms layers on the Earth’s surface?

• Fossil

• Sedimentary rock

• Igneous Rock

• Metamorphic Rock

What is a type of rock that forms when rocks are buried and heat and/or pressure causes the rock to change into a new rock?

• Ice

• Metamorphic rock

• Sedimentary rock

• Igneous rock

What is a type of rock that forms when magma or lava cools and hardens?

• Fossil

• Sedimentary rock

• Metamorphic rock

• Igneous rock

What is the preserved remains of a once living organism?

• Rocks

• Fossils

• Metamorphic rock

• Ice

Someone who studies fossils is called a

• Smarty pants

• Paleontologist

• Meterologist

• Doctor