Fossil PQ

The space and all the living and nonliving things around an organism

• Environment

• Data

• Organism

• Evidence

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Evidence

• Information that has been collected

• Information that supports an idea

• The space and all the living and nonliving things around an organism

• Preserved parts or traces of animals and plants that lived in the past

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Organism

• Information that supports an idea

• Information that has been collected

• A single, self-contained, living thing

• Preserved parts or traces of animals and plants that lived in the past

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

Preserved parts or traces of animals and plants that lived in the past

• Organism

• Nature

• Environment

• Fossil

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Nature

• The space and all the living and nonliving things around an organism

• How something is without human intervention

• A single, self-contained, living thing

Information that has been collected

• Data

• Fossil

• Evidence

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What organism could have created this fossil?

• A plant

• A dinosaur

• A mammoth

• An insect

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

A student is looking at a fossilized skull with sharp teeth. Based on what the student sees, the organism–

• survived by eating other animals.

• ran fast to catch its prey.

• consumed water plants.

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Scientists use fossils to learn about past organisms and environments. Which of the following can NOT be learned from a fossil?

• The shape and size of organisms

• Whether or not the desert used to be a body of water

• The location and type of an ecosystem

• The number of offspring from an organism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Which type of environment did this fossil live in?

• Desert

• Prairie

• Tundra

• Ocean

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1