Fossils

Making imprints of objects in clay is most useful for learning about _____________________.

• weathering

• fossils

• renewable resources

• the rock cycle

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You find a dinosaur footprint in a rock near your house. What is the BEST conclusion you can draw from this footprint about what happened many years ago?

• dinosaurs changed and adapted over time

• a meteor hit where you live

• dinosaurs once loved where you live

• dinosaurs were reptiles

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What happens to MOST dead plants and animals?

• sediment buries them

• they become fossils

• they quickly rot or get eaten

• they turn into water

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What can scientists most easily tell from a set of footprints that have become fossils?

• what the animal ate

• how many babies the animal had

• what kind of enemies the animal had

• how the animal moved

What needs to happen for a bone to become a fossil?

• it must be buried

• it must rot

• it must be eaten

• it must be crushed

A scientist finds shell fossils in a rock in the desert. What conclusion can the scientist make?

• Millions of years ago, the desert was an ocean.

• Millions of years ago, the desert was covered by ice.

• Millions of years ago, the desert was a rainforest.

• Millions of years ago, the desert was the top of a mountain.

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Scientists know that dinosaurs actually lived because ____________________________.

• people who have seen them told the scientists

• they have seen the dinosaurs

• they have found fossils of dinosaurs

• some animals alive today look like dinosaurs

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What can scientists learn about a particular dinosaur from studying its fossilized teeth?

• how big it was

• what its skin looked like

• what kind of food it ate

• how fast it would run

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What is a fossil?

• fossils are the preserved remains of plants or animals that lived long ago

• fossils are decayed remains of plants or animals

• fossils are imprints of leaves found in the mud

• fossils are humus found in soil

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Fossils can be found in:

• hardened tree sap

• sedimentary rock

• they can be petrified

• all of the above