Fossil Quiz

What are preserved remains or traces of ancient plant and animal life called?

• Trace fossil

• Body fossils

• Mold fossils

• Cast fossils

What is the hollow space left in a rock by animal or plant remains that have dissolved called?

• Trace fossil

• Mold fossils

• Body fossils

• Cast fossils

How are cast fossils formed?

• By groundwater filling pore spaces

• By evidence of organisms transitioning from water to land

• By layers of sedimentary rock

• By filling in with minerals or sediments

What are layers of sedimentary rock that compile and compress over time called?

• Strata

• Permineralization

• Transitional fossil

• Evolution

What is a fossil that provides evidence for organisms transitioning from living in water to land called?

• Strata

• Permineralization

• Transitional fossil

• Evolution

What is the process where groundwater fills pore spaces in animal or plant remains and deposits minerals called?

• Transitional fossil

• Permineralization

• Strata

• Evolution

What is the evidence that organisms have changed over long periods of time called?

• Permineralization

• Transitional fossil

• Evolution

• Strata

What is a scientist that studies the fossil record to better understand life on Earth called?

• Trace fossil

• Paleontologist

• Mold fossils

• Cast fossils

What is the impression or other preserved sign of activity such as feeding, scratching, burrowing, walking, or resting called?

• Mold fossils

• Body fossils

• Trace fossil

• Cast fossils

What are preserved remains of the plant or animal itself, or the preserved parts of the animal or plant like bones, teeth, and shells, or the imprint of parts of the animal or plant called?

• Body fossils

• Trace fossil

• Cast fossils

• Mold fossils