Fossils

Check each word that makes the following statement true:

The fossil record documents the ____ of life-forms throughout the history of life on Earth.

• change

• diversity

• entire number

• extinction

• environment

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Which of the following best describes what we mean when we talk about the fossil record?

• leaf imprints found in hardened mud

• the history of fossils in the last 400,000 years

• a fossil in rock

• all the fossils that have been discovered

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Select each statement that explains why the fossil record is considered incomplete.

• Not all organisms become fossils

• some organisms have not been extinct long enough

• there were times when fossils didn't form

• there are still fossils that haven't been found

• some organisms are too small to make fossils

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Which organisms are older, according to the fossil record?

• fish with fins

• tetrapods with limbs

• an aquatic animal with gills and limbs

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Why do we find more fossils of organisms such as snails and vertebrates than organisms such as jellyfish?

• Jellyfish do not have bones

• jellyfish are not extinct

• jellyfish do not die

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Fossils found in the top layer of soil are most likely _____ then fossils found in a deeper layer.

• older

• younger

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The age of a fossil is the same age as the rock it is found in.

• true

• false

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Organisms with shells appeared before tetrapods.

• true

• false

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

The lowest layer of rock would contain the _______ fossils.

• oldest

• youngest

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Fish and organisms with shells lived at the same time.

• true

• false

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