Fossils

What type of scientist study fossils and what life was like millions of years ago?

• paleontologists

• biologists

• fosslists

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What do paleontologist use to build models and explain what the world was like?

• molds

• evidence

• oceans

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Over billions of years, Earth's surface has changed dramatically.

True or False?

• true

• false

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What changes have happened to the Earth over billions of years?

• Areas once covered by water are now dry.

• Continents have moved.

• Areas of the Earth covered by large sheets of ice, now have melted.

• All of thesse

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Fossils help scientist determine the _______ of rocks.

• lava

• magma

• age

• color

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How is sedimentary rock formed?

• Layers of rock formed by sediments that settled in Earth's oceans, lakes, and swamps

• In the snow

• From tree roots and rocks.

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Petrified wood is ______________.

• A newly planted tree.

• A tree fossil showing the wood grain and rings in the wood.

• A frozen tree.

Why are fossils so important to scientists?

• They help scientists explain what the world was like millions of years ago.

• They teach them about the future.

• They are not really that important to scientists.

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A type of fossil that forms the exact replica of the original organizm.

• extinct

• endangered

• cast

• crust

All the fossils on Earth make up the __________.

• fossil diaries

• fossil record

• fossil evidence

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