Fossils

What are the hardened remains of living things that died long ago?

• Extinct

• Fossils
• Metamorphic rock
• Minerals

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True or false: All once-living organisms left behind fossils.

• True.
• False.

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A fossil is ____.

• a dead rotten animal
• the remains of things that lived a long, long time ago
• a plant that dried up

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People who study fossils are called ____.

• meterologists
• fossilologists
• paleontologists

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What are the remains of once living things called?

• amber
• fossils
• species
• extinct

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Fossils give clues about the past.

• True
• False

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Which of the following is an example of a fossil?

• A living woolly mammoth.
• A leaf that just fell off a tree.
• An imprint of a leaf from thousands of years ago.
• A recently buried shark.

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Which of these is NOT a fossil?

• footprints left by an animal thousands of years ago.
• a leaf print from thousands of years ago.
• a picture of an animal from long ago.
• the remains of a dinosaur that have turned to stone.

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Which of these can you learn from a fossil? CHOOSE 3.

• The size of the animal

• What the animal ate

• The color of the animal

• Where the animal lived

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Paleontologists look at the ______ of an animal to determine it's eating habits.

• arms

• bones

• teeth

• eyes

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