4th Grade Unit 3 Earth Features Pre/Post Test

What is your first name?

Pick the picture of a fossil.

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How do fossils form?

• When animals hatch from their eggs and the egg shell dissolves into the ground.

• When water fills cracks in the road, freezes and causes the road to expand.

• When an organism dies and is covered in sediment that later turns into rock.

• When scientist dig up old animals to display in museums.

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How does sedimentary rock form?

• When hot, molten rock crystallizes and solidifies.

• When sediment sinks and builds up in water, compacts under more sediment, and cements over times.

• When inorganic and organic materials are subjected to high heat and pressure.

• When weathering rocks are exposed to extreme heat or cold.

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Over time rock layers...

• Are eroded away or weathered down until there is nothing left.

• Follow the rock cycle and become a different type of rock.

• Change colors, and usually become darker.

• Become thicker as sediment build ups.

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If there are different sedimentary rock layers in a place, that means that place has changed over time.

• True

• False

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Geologists make ______ about past environments through observation of rocks and fossils.

• hypotheses

• jokes

• inferences

• predictions

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How do rock layers form?

• New layers form on top of existing rock layers, lower layers are older and higher layers are newer.

• Rock layers form around organisms to leave space for fossil formations.

• Scientist form rock layers in their labs.

• Rock layers form as rocks go through the rock cycle.

_______ observe the order of rock layers to infer the order of past events.

• Chemist

• Geologists

• Fossil researchers

• Paleontologists

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Rock can be broken down and eroded by things like...

• animal and human activity.

• cars polluting the environment.

• extreme weather.

• wind, water, plants, and ice.

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