Fossils

What do fossils teach us about?

• Everything we need to know about a plant or animal.

• They teach us about the past and the environment.

• Everything single living thing will become a fossil when it dies.

• That wooly mammoths are not extinct.

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A family was hiking on a mountain and found several fossils, including a shark tooth and a clam shell.  How has the area changed?

• It used to warmer.
• It used to be colder.
• It used to be an ocean.
• It used to be a desert.

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The diagram shows layers of sedimentary rock and examples of the fossils each layer contains, Which layer contains the oldest fossils? 

• A. Layer 2
• B. Layer 4
• C. Layer 1
• D. Layer 3

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How are fossils created?

• A. Traces of organisms harden like rock. 
• B. Dead organisms are quickly buried for millions of years.
• C. Animals get trapped.
• D. All of the above

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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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A scientist finds the leaf fossil shown below. Which question can the scientist most likely answer by examining this fossil?

• How much oxygen was the plant that grew the leaf able to produce each year?

• How much water was absorbed by the plant that grew the leaf?

• What was the environment in the area like when the leaf was part of a living plant?

• What was the average monthly rainfall in the area when the leaf was part of a living plant?

Scientists explore layers of rock. They find two types of fossils in some of the layers. The fossils in the layers are shown. Which change most likely occurred to the environment from fossil Y to fossil X?

• Changed from an ocean to desert

• Changed from a tundra to forest

• Changed from a forest to desert

• Changed from an ocean to forest

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