Fossils Review

Which layer of rocks is the oldest?

• A.

• B.

• C.

• D.

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Fossils are best used as evidence about which of these?

• The processes that change rocks over time

• How best to conserve natural resources

• The plants and animals that lived long ago

• What forces drive the water cycle on Earth

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A team of fossil hunters dug a hole in a desert in Peru. Today, this desert is one of the driest places on Earth. Almost no rain falls there. They found a fossil of a shark. What does this tell us about what the environment used to be?

• Sharks have sharp teeth

• The dessert is a dry place

• The desert used to be covered in water

• The shark lived in the dry desert

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The illustration shows the fossil limbs of two animals. Observing and comparing these fossils would be most useful in determining what about the animals they represent?

• Whether they live in groups or alone

• If one of the animals eats the other

• Whether the animals lay eggs or give live birth

• How the animals moved around

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What can fossilized teeth tell us about an animal?

• How fast the animal can run

• What the animal ate

• Where the animal lived

• How much the animal weighed

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Today, the continent of Antarctica, which surrounds Earth’s South Pole, is the coldest place on our planet. Scientists exploring an area in Antarctica called the Dry Valleys have found fossils of mosses and tiny animals. What does this finding tell us about what the environment used to be?

• The land was always covered in ice

• The Environment used to be warm enough for animals and mosses to live and survive there.

• The environment was covered in water.

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The illustration here shows the tooth of a cow and the fossilized teeth of four different animals. Based on tooth structure, which fossil tooth is from an animal that most likely ate the same things as a cow?

• Tooth A

• Tooth B

• Tooth C

• Tooth D

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About how old is the turtle head fossil?

• 10 million years old

• 1 million years old

• 3 million years old

• 4 million years old

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When an imprint of the animal or a living thing is filled with minerals that harden into stone.

• cast fossil

• trace fossil

• true form fossil

• mold fossil

Evidence left behind by an animal like footprints or a nest

• cast fossil

• trace fossil

• true form fossil

• mold fossil