Fossils: Science Court

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

• archeologists

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Which of the following is NOT an example of a fossil?

• a petrified dinosaur bone

• a dinosaur footprint captured in mud

• a seashell found on the beach

• an insect trapped in amber

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The process that turns living things, like bones, into rocks is called _____.

• rock and roll

• petrification

• dinosaurification

• fossilification

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Which of the following is NOT a soft part of an animal?

• teeth

• heart

• tongue

• brain

Which of the following is NOT something you could learn from a fossil?

• The size of the animal

• What the animal ate

• The color of the animal

• the habitat the animal lived in

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In which kind of rock do we usually find a fossil?

• sedimentary rock

• minerals

• igneous rock

• metamorphic rock

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Which of the following events happens FIRST?

• Slowly, minerals in the water replace the bone.
• Sediment covers the bone.
• An animal dies.
• The bone is no longer a bone, but a rock copy.

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

• A paleontologist
• An organism
• A fossil

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Which of the following is NOT something you could learn from an animal that left behind large, sharp teeth?

• It probably ate meat because it had sharp teeth.
• It was probably a large animal since it had large teeth,
• It was probably a boy dinosaur because it had sharp teeth.

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