Rock Layers and Fossils

_____________ are remains of plants and animals.

• Fossils

• Stripes

• Minerals

• Arthropod

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Substances formed naturally in the earth are called ____________.

• marine life

• fossilization

• minerals

• earthquakes

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When a natural force has worn away rock and soil, it has __________.

• fossilized

• eroded

• dissolved

• arthropod

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What is the process called when matter changes into a fossil?

• earthquakes

• dissolved

• fossilization

• eroded

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What are trilobites? Select all that apply.

• ancient animal

• lived after dinosaurs

• marine animal

• land animal

• arthropod

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What can we learn from rock layers? Select all that apply.

• may appear as stripes

• oldest layers are on the top

• fossils can be found within

  layers

• rock layers are formed from

  deserts

• rock layers can be shifted by

  erosion or earthquakes

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What can scientists learn about from fossils? Select all that apply.

• older fossils are found in lower

  layers

• how life has changed over

  time

• newer fossils are found in layers

  towards the bottom

• that the remains are from

  plants and animals

• that the remains are from rocks

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True or false: You can only find marine animal fossils in aquatic environments.

• True

• False

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True or false: The fossils on the top layer are the oldest fossils that have been exposed through erosion.

• True

• False

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Look at the picture below. What can you learn from the rock layers and fossils? Select all that apply.

• There was a body of water

  here once.

• There was never water in

  the area.

• The fish is older than the

  other fossils found.

• The dinosaur fossils are older

  than the plant fossil found.

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