Fossils Quiz

Scientists that study fossils are called ______.

• Paleontologist
• psychologist

• Doctor

What does it mean if a plant or an animal is extinct? ______.

• It does exist on earth

• They are alive

• It does not exist on earth anymore.

What are organisms? ______.

• Living things, such as plants and animals.
• Dogs, cats

• plants

______ is when something is rotting and no longer exists.

• living things

• Decay

• Old Food

Use the space below to write what it means when a scientist preserves a fossil: ______.

• They are keeping it safe from being destroyed.
• To take it to museums

• To keep it clean

Fossils are the preserved ______ or traces of organisms that lived in the ______.

Fossils can be used to understand ______ events and ______.

Using the space below, describe what has to happen for plants or animals to become fossilized:

What are the four types of fossils?

Trace fossils are a ______, ______, trail, burrow, or any other "trace" of a plant or an animal.

• ice cube, snow

• mark, footprint

• trace,footprint