Fossils Generation Genius

What physical evidence do we find of past life on Earth?

• Pollen grains
• Footprints
• Fossils

• Meteorites

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True or false: all fossils come from dinosaurs.

• True

• False

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What evidence does the team find that suggests the desert was once an ocean?

• waves imprints in the sand

• metamorphic rock formations

• the presence of diamond deposits

• Fossilized marine life

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What is a rock layer full of fossils called?

• fossil deposit
• fossil bed
• fossil layer
• fossil stratum

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Which of these rock layers is the oldest?

• 1

• 4

• 3

• 7

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What can we learn using radiocarbon dating?

• The temperature of the Earth's core
• The composition of rocks in a fossil layer

• The age of organic materials like fossils

• The migration patterns of birds

What formed the Grand Canyon?

• A dust storm

• Rain

• Bulldozers dug deep

• Movement of the Colorado River

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

True or false: large portions of North America that are now dry land used to be under an ocean.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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What is the largest type of shark that ever lived?

• Megalodon
• Tiger Shark
• Hammerhead Shark
• Great White Shark

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How do the rock layers above and below the bone bed compare in age?

• Older above and younger below

• You can't tell the age of rocks

• Younger above and older below

• Same age

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4