Mass extinctions and Fossils

Why are scientists more likely to find a shell fossil and not a jellyfish fossil

• shells are formed in volcanoes

• shells have body structures that are likely to be preserved.

• Shells are found in top layers of rocks

• Jellyfish are more likely to be preserved

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What conclusion can you make about this fossil?

• It swam in the ocean.

• It likely had feathers.

• It had a shell

• It has 5 toes on each foot.

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This organism likely had

• two feet and was bipedal

• three feet and was tripedal

• four feet and was quadrupedal

• one foot and hopped around

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Which layer of rock is the oldest?

• A
• B
• C
• D

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What conclusion can you make about the ancient environment where this fossil was found?

• It was a desert.

• It was a forest.

• it was a marine environment.

• It was the arctic tundra.

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What conclusion can you make from this imprint?

• This organism probably flew

• This organism was swimming

• This organism is still alive.

• This organism probably walked in a moist environment, such as by a lake or river and their footprints were preserved

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This diagram can be used to determine

• whether an organism was bipedal or quadrupedal by looking at its footprints

• Whether an organism could fly

• Whether an organism could swim

• the identity of the organisms in the pictures

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Which layer of rock is likely the youngest?

• B

• C

• D

• E

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Magma from an underground chamber cut across sedimentary rocks and created an intrusion. What type of rock is an intrusion?

• sedimentary

• sediments

• igneous

• metamorphic

What are the relative ages of the features in order from oldest to youngest?

• Limestone, Basalt, Fault, Siltstone
• Siltstone, Fault, Basalt, Limestone
• Limestone, Fault, Basalt, Siltstone
• Limestone, Siltstone, Fault, Basalt

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