Earth's Outer Layer/Mesosaurus Fossils

Earth's outermost layer of hard, solid rock?

• Mantle

• Crust

• Plate Boundary

• Liquid Core

A sudden shaking of Earth's surface?

• Tsunami

• Volcano

• Earthquake

• A mesosaurus walking by

Something we observe to be similar over and over again?

• Mantle

• Earthquake

• Pattern

• Plate Boundary

One of the very large sections of hard, solid rock making up Earth's outer layer?

• Mantle

• Pattern

• Inner core

• Plate

The place where to plates meet?

• Pattern

• Plate Boundary

• Mantle

• Earthquake

A scientist who studies fossils?

• Professor of fossilology

• Mesausoritist

• Paleontologist

• Fossilologist

Long, slender neck, nostrils at the top of its head, webbed feet and long, slender tail describes this creature?

• A branchiosaurus

• Amphibian

• Mesosaurus

• Your professor

True or Fale: A fossil can be bones, hair, petrified wood, stone imprints of animals?

• True

• False

• Neither

True or False: It is possible for the same species that once lived in the same place to be found on 2 separate continents?

• True

• False

• Neither

Examples of places we have drilled for core samples.

• Arizona, USA

• Guadalupe Island, Mexico

• Ross Ice Shelf

• All the Above