Fossil Types and Information

Preserved remains or traces of living things?

• fossils
• organisms
• extinct
• rocks

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Trace fossils are?

• foot prints
• evidence of activities of ancient organisms
• traces of animals
• traces of rocks

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This type of fossil forms when sediments bury an organism and then sediments change into rock; the organism decays leaving a cavity in the shape of the organism.

• Mold

• Cast

• Trace

• Petrified

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What type of fossil is pictured?

• Cast

• Mold

• Trace

• Petrified

Which of the following information can be determined by the footprints of dinosaurs?

• their skin texture

• their sounds

• their size

• their color

The hardened remains of a living thing that died long ago.

• fossil

• extinct

• endangered

• minerals

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

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A solid copy of the shape of an organism is...

• a fossil record

• a mold

• a carbon film

• a cast

An organism is ______________ if it no longer exits and will never live again on Earth.

• rare

• extinct

• plentiful

• missing

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A fossil is ____________.

• evidence of past life
• part of the fossil record
• found in sedimentary rock
• all of the above

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Preserved footprints, or fossilized scat are examples of _________

• trace fossils
• carbonized fossils
• cast fossils
• mold fossils