Fossil Quizizz Core 1

What do you call a scientist that studies fossils?

• Ecologist

• Paleontologist

• Zoologist

• Fossilologist

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True or False. All fossils come from dinosaurs.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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What information can a fossilized plant give scientists?

• what color the plants were long ago
• what kind of animals existed long ago
• what dinosaurs looked like long ago
• what environments were like long ago

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A family was hiking on a mountain and found several fossils, including a shark tooth and a clam shell.  How has the area changed?

• It used to warmer.
• It used to be colder.
• It used to be an ocean.
• It used to be a desert.

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What can scientists learn by studying fossils?

I.how the Earth's surface has changed over time

II.the appearance of an organism and its structures

III.how species have changed over time

IV.how the Earth's climate has changed over time

• II only

• I, II, III, and IV

• I and IV only

• I, II, and III

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The preserved remains or evidence of ancient living things...

• clay

• fossils

• igneous rocks

• silt

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Which is a mold?

• the impression left by an organism

• a copy of the organism, like a statue

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Fossils could provide evidence for....

• relationships between past organisms and current organisms

• past organisms only

• current organisms only

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In what type of rock would you typically find fossils?

• igneous
• metamorphic
• sedimentary
• rocky

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Fossils can provide evidence of how life has changed over time, how Earth's surface has changed, and clues about what past environments were like.

• True
• False

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