Fossils Quiz

____________________ is a scientist who studies fossils.

• paleontologist 
•  fossil
• preserved
• extinct

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What does extinct mean?

• A plant or animal that is in danger of dying out.

• A plant or animal that is alive.

• A plant or animal that has completely died out and no longer on Earth.

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A plant can become a fossil.

• True

• False

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Check the boxes that show things we can learn from fossils.

• what the animal ate

• if the animal was angry

• the animal's size

• how fast the animal was

• if the animal was hungry

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All fossils come from dinosaurs

• True

• False

An animal has sharp, pointy teeth, what can we infer about this animal?

• The animal lived in the water

• The animal lived near the beach.

• The animal is a carnivore.

• The animal only ate plants.

If a scientist found a fish fossil in the desert, what can they infer?

• An animal ate the fish.

• The water covered the area long ago.

• Today's fish looks the same

• The fish is endangered.

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What are fossils?

• The remains of living things or traces of living things that lived very long ago

• big rocks

• Only dinosaur bones

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In order for a fossil to form, which of the following events must happen FIRST?

• Slowly, minerals in the water replace the bone.
• Sediment covers the bone.
• An animal dies.

_____ is any living thing, plant or animal, even you!

• A paleontologist
• An organism
• A fossil
• A rock

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