fossils

a paleontologist is

• someone who studies soil

• someone who studies the earth

• someone who studies fossils

• someone who looks for dinosaurs

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a paleontologist might find of

• skin of dinosaurs

• teeth of an extinct organism

• hair from a wooly mammoth

• pictures of dinosaurs

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it takes ______ for a fossil to form

• 10 days

• 10 weeks

• 10 months

• 10 thousand years

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what can a scientist conclude from a fossil dinosaur bone?

• how large they were

• how good they could see

• how long they slept each day

• how many babies they have

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finding a fossil of a shark on our playground tells us

• that a bird dropped it after it died

• that at one time our playground was part of the ocean

• that sharks lived on our playground

• nothing

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what best describes a fossil?

• skin, teeth and bones of an animal

• remains of a plant or animal that lived long ago

• an old set of bones

• something scientist like to look at

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Harper read an article about a shark fossil they found on tybee that was much larger than any sharks living today. what statement is true?

• sharks use to be much larger than they are today

• sharks are scary

• sharks are small

• sharks like to eat plants

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a imprint of a tropical plant was found in the mountains, what does that tell us?

• at one time the mountain area was a tropical climate

• tropical plants grow in the mountains

• tropical plants like the cold

• nothing

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what are two examples of what fossilized teeth could tell us?

• the animals diet and what type of animal

• how old the animal was and where he lived

• what he looked like and what he ate

• what area they lived in and what they ate

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a fossil can be described as

• something alive that lived a long time ago

• preserved remains of plants that lived long ago

• preserved remains of an animal that lived long aog

• preserved remains of plants and animals that lived long ago