Fossils 5.7D

A scientist finds a plant fossil. What question could be answered?

• The amount of rainfall occured

• How much oxygen was in the air

• information on surrounding environment

• What did the roots absorbed

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You found a fish fossil in your backyard. What conclusion can you make?

• Someone buried their pet fish

• The environment once had fish that lived on land

• The land used to be covered by water long ago

• Fish were made of bones and no scales.

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Look at the sedimentary rock layers below

How did the environment change between the C layer and the B layer?

• The ocean dried up and disappeared between the C and B layers.

• There is no change in the environment between C and B layers.

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A dinosaur fossil is shown.

Which question can scientist most likely answer from studying the fossils of the dinosaur?

• What was the pattern of the skin of the dinosaur?

• What was the type of food the dinosaur ate?

• How fast was the heart of the dinosaur beating?

• How many eggs were in the nest of the dinosaur?

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The diagram shows a rock layers next to a road. Layer 3 contains many plant fossils. Layer 3 most likely formed in which of these environment?

• Desert

• Forest

• Ocean

• Tundra

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Imagine that a student found a fossil of the leaf in your backyard. Which conclusion best represents the origin of the fossil based on the evidence shown?

• There were no animals in the area at the time this leaf was fossilized.

• The leaf made an imprint in the sediment before it hardened to rock.

• The plants at the time had bones which allowed them to be fossilized.

• The leaf was in the fossilized stomach of an animal.

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Fossilized plants give scientist information about the type of plants that lived long ago. What other information can fossilized plants provide?

• The kind of environment that existed long ago

• The kind of animals that were alive long ago

• The color of plants from long ago

• What dinosaurs looked like long ago

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An archeologist thinks that his dig site used to be creek environment. Which fossils would help support this hypothesis?

• Shark tooth

• fish, plant

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Observe the dinosaur fossil above. Based on the shape of their limbs, these dinosaurs most likely lived in what type of environments?

• Amphicoelias lived on land and Northosaurus lived in the ocean

• Nothosaurus lived on land and Amphicoelia lived in water.

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Which graph supports this investigation?

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