Science Test 2 5B

What is the scientific study of fossils?

• Paleontology

• geology

• Evolution

What are people called who believe life on the earth evolved ?

• Evolutionists

• Creationists

What are people called who believe that God created the earth and everything in it?

• Creationists

• Evolutionists

What is it called when the last of a plant or animal dies?

• Extinction

• Exhaustion

• Excavation

What is the process of removing a fossil from the rock and other materials surrounding it?

• Excavation

• Exhaustion

• Extinction

What is one thing a scientist cannot learn from a fossil?

• Animals outward appearance

• Animals size

• Animals behavior

People draw conclusions about fossils based on what they believe about how the earth began

• True

• False

Dinosaur bones have been found only in the eastern parts of the earth

• True

• False

The fossil record provides clear evidence of a worldwide Flood

• True

• False

Fossils have been preserved in tar, ice, amber and sedimentary rock

• True

• False