Quiz about Fossils

Question 1

Scientists who study fossils are called

Accepted Answer

Paleontologists

Answer

Geologists

Answer

Fossil Scientists

Answer

Meteorologists

Question 2

Which layer is oldest?

Accepted Answer

A

Answer

W

Answer

G

Answer

Z

Question 3

Fossilized tracks or other evidence of activity of an organism.

Accepted Answer

trace

Answer

trail

Answer

index

Answer

absolute

Question 4

The preserved remains or evidence of ancient living things...

Accepted Answer

fossils

Answer

clay

Answer

igneous rocks

Answer

silt

Question 5

Which type of rock are fossils found in?

Accepted Answer

sedimentary

Answer

igneous

Answer

metamorphic

Question 6

What can we learn from studying fossils?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Answer

What time period plants and animals existed.

Answer

Which types of food animals may have eaten.

Answer

That certain plants and animals no longer exist on Earth

Question 7

What is the fossil called when an organism decays and leaves a hollow space in a rock?

Accepted Answer

mold

Answer

trace

Answer

body

Answer

cast

Question 8

Animals often leave clues behind, like footprints and burrows, that teach scientists more about their habits and activities. What are these fossils called?

Accepted Answer

trace

Answer

cast

Answer

body

Answer

mold

Question 9

If a scientist finds a complete dinosaur skeleton, which type of fossil have they found?

Accepted Answer

body

Answer

cast

Answer

trace

Answer

mold

Question 10

What can become a fossil?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Answer

Plants

Answer

Animals

Answer

Shells

Question 11

There have been a few wooly mammoths found completely preserved and fossilized, including their fur! How were these mammoths most likely fossilized?

Accepted Answer

ice

Answer

tar

Answer

rock

Question 12

Which of the following is an example of a fossil?

Accepted Answer

An imprint of a leaf

Answer

A volcanic rock

Answer

A rock that has been broken down

Answer

A crab alive in a shell

Question 13

Which of the following is NOT TRUE?

Accepted Answer

Fossils can ONLY teach us about plants.

Answer

Fossils teach us about the past.

Answer

Fossils are mostly found in sedimentary rock.

Answer

There is more than one type of fossil.

Question 14

Remains, imprints or traces of once-living organisms

Accepted Answer

fossils

Answer

water

Answer

superposition

Question 15

Correctly sequence the layers of rocks oldest to youngest

Accepted Answer

A,B,C,D

Answer

D,C,B,A

Question 16

Correctly sequence the layers of rocks oldest to youngest

Accepted Answer

C,E, D,B,A

Answer

C,E,D,A,B

Answer

C,E,D,A,B

Question 17

Correctly sequence the layers of rocks oldest to youngest

Accepted Answer

E, B,C D, A

Answer

A,D, C, B, E

Answer

B,E,C, D, A

Question 18

Which statement is true?

Accepted Answer

Layer B is older than Layer C

Answer

Layer C is the oldest

Answer

Layer B is older than Layer A

Answer

Layer A is the youngest

Question 19

What type of fossil is pictured here?

Accepted Answer

Body fossil

Answer

Mold fossil

Answer

Trace fossil

Answer

Cast fossil

Question 20

What type of fossil is pictured here?

Accepted Answer

Mold fossil

Answer

Trace fossil

Answer

Cast fossil

Answer

Body fossil

Question 21

What type of fossil is pictured here?

Accepted Answer

Trace fossil

Answer

Forest fossil

Answer

Cast fossil

Answer

Body fossil

Question 22

What type of fossil is pictured here?

Accepted Answer

Cast fossil

Answer

Mold fossil

Answer

Trace fossil

Answer

Body fossil

Question 23

Which conditions might lead to fossil formation? (Choose 3)

Accepted Answer

Getting buried quickly by sediment

Accepted Answer

getting trapped in a tar pit

Accepted Answer

making a footprint in mud

Answer

Decomposition

Answer

getting eaten by another animal

Question 24

What is a good rule to follow when determining the age of rock layers?

Accepted Answer

The rock layers get older as you dig deeper.

Answer

The oldest is always on the top.

Answer

The layers position does not necessarily tell you about the age.

Answer

The youngest is always on the bottom.

Question 25

In order for a fossil to form, which of the following events must happen FIRST?

Accepted Answer

An animal dies.

Answer

Slowly, minerals in the water replace the bone.

Answer

Sediment covers the bone.

Answer

The bone is no longer a bone, but a rock copy.

Question 26

_____ is any living thing, plant or animal, even you!

Accepted Answer

An organism

Answer

A paleontologist

Answer

A fossil

Answer

A rock

Question 27

What happens when a group of animals become extinct?

Accepted Answer

All of its members have died.

Answer

Only a few of its members are still living.

Answer

The animals can no longer lay eggs.

Answer

All of its members move to another place.

Question 28

What happens to insects when they become trapped in amber?

Accepted Answer

they are preserved (they stay the same)

Answer

they form molds

Answer

they decay

Answer

they form casts

Question 29

A paleontologist finds a fossil of a fish on top of a mountain. She can infer that the area was once ___________________________.

Accepted Answer

underwater

Answer

much cooler

Answer

much warmer

Answer

a desert

Question 30

Long ago, small organisms became trapped in sticky tree sap that hardened. What is the hardened sap called?

Accepted Answer

amber

Answer

a cast

Answer

an imprint

Answer

a mold

Question 31

Where can the oldest layer be found?

Accepted Answer

The bottom layer

Answer

The top layer

Answer

The middle layer

Answer

They are all the same age

Question 32

Which layer formed first?

Accepted Answer

Rock Layer Z

Answer

Rock Layer W

Answer

Rock Layer X

Answer

Rock Layer Y

Question 33

Fossils give us evidence about which of the following?

Accepted Answer

plants and animals that lived long ago

Answer

how weathering and erosion break down rocks

Answer

the other planets in our solar system

Answer

the transfer of energy from one form  to another

Question 34

Finding warm-weather plant fossils in the layers of a cold northern island suggests that

Accepted Answer

the climate used to be warmer

Answer

the fossils are used to  cold

Answer

the area used to be located further south

Answer

the people used to eat the plants

Question 35

Which is an example of a fossil?

Accepted Answer

a footprint in a rock

Answer

a seashell under water

Answer

a leaf in a puddle

Answer

a bone on top of the ground

Question 36

How could there be fossils of ocean animals in states that are hundreds of miles from the sea?

Accepted Answer

Seawater must have covered those states at one time.

Answer

Lots of the same animals live in those states too.

Answer

Groundwater must have carried to fossils to those states.

Answer

Animals carried the fossils to those states.

Fossils

Create a free account and access millions of resources

Similar Resources on Wayground

Popular Resources on Wayground

Discover more resources for Science