Fossil Quiz 5th Grade

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Paleontology

• someone who studies cars.

• someone who studies cooking.

• someone who studies fossils.

• someon who studies the planets.

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Evolunionists

• believe that God created the world

• believe that the earth began by chance

• believe that the world will end in 2024

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Creationists

• believe that the world was always here

• believe that the world happened to be created by accident

• believe that there was a beginning but don't know where it started

• believe that God's Word in Genesis 1 explains the true beginning of the world.

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Extinction

• when there are too many of the same kind of thing

• something that doesn't exist anymore (animal/plants)

• something that was never real

• something that is made of carbon

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Excavation

• removing a fossil from the rock around it.

• parts of a plant that grow outside

• when a building becomes very tall.

• an animal that no longer exists.

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Petrified Fossil

• a type of fossil that is scared

• when an animal was scared when it died and became a fossil

• when the minerals harden to form a rock around a fossil

• a fossil that is soft

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Carbon Film

• a part of a fire

• when a fossil is black

• when a film is really dark

• parts of the plant or animal form a dark image of itself onto a rock

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Cast

• a science group that sings

• A sediment that fills a mold to make a cast

• something you wear when you break a bone

• the shape an animal leaves when it dies

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Mold

• when an animal dies, it leaves its shape on the ground or rock

• when your bread gets really old

• when an animal dies and smells bad

• when the animal sleeps on a rock for a long time.

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Trace

• is formed from something that is left behind ( like a footprint)

• when a scientist likes to draw animals or plants

• and artists that likes to draw

• the last animal on the planet.