What Fossils Tell Us

Which layer is oldest?

• A
• W
• G
• Z

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In which kind of rock do we usually find a fossil?

• sedimentary  rock
• rock candy
• hard rock

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What is a fossil?

• the remains or physical evidence of an organism preserved by geologic processes
• fossils can be preserved in rock, amber, asphalt, or ice
• any naturally preserved evidence of animal activity
• fossil of an organism that lived during a relatively short period of time

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_{Which rock layer contains the newest fossils?}

• F
• E
• B
• C

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People who study fossils are called ____.

• meterologists
• fossilologists
• paleontologists
• fossil hunters

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Fossils give us evidence about which of the following?

• plants and animals that lived long ago
• how weathering and erosion break down rocks
• the other planets in our solar system
• the transfer of energy from one form  to another

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Finding fossils in an area can help us learn what about that location?

• Which places in the region receive the most sunlight
• The effect of the climate on the formation of the soil
• How modern plants and animals interact there
• The kinds of organisms that lived there long ago

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Fossils of fish are found under land where cows now live. What does this tell you?

• the fish were dropped their by flying birds
• this land was once under the ocean
• farmers fed the fish to the cows
• fish used to live on land

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What tells you the most about the history of the Earth?

• Water

• Plants and Animals

• People

• Rocks and Fossils

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Which of the following can scientists learn from a fossil of a shark's tooth?

• how good the shark's eyesight was

• how large the shark was

• what the shark ate just before it died

• how fast the shark swam

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