Fossils

If you found a Woolly Mammoth tusk in the desert, what would you guess about that area millions of years ago?

• it was very hot and dry

• Woolly Mammoths liked sand

• it was cold there millions of years ago

• it never changed

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If you found a fern leaf, what would you guess about the area where it was found?

• an ice glacier was once there

• a forest was once there

• a desert was once there

• an ocean was once there

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Finding fossils helps us determine how plants and animals interacted millions of years ago

• True

• False

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Fossils are best used as evidence about?

• how rocks changed over time

• how to use energy

• the plants and animals that lived a long time ago

• the climate today

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By studying fossils, we can determine

• what lived there many years ago

• the weather forecast of an area

• the phases of the moon

• the different animals that live today

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The preserved parts or traces of animals and plants that lived in the past

• sediment

• fossil

• decay

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When a fossil is made, how soon must the organism be covered with sediment when it dies?

• quickly

• slowly

In order for a fossil to be made, the conditions have to be just righ

• True

• False

In a fossil does the packed sediment turn to stone?

• True

• False

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If looking at layers of sediment in the earth, which layer is the youngest?

• the top

• the middle

• the bottom

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