Quiz about 4th Grade Fossil Review

Question 1

Fossils help us learn about how organisms lived in ancient times.

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True

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False

Question 2

We learn from fossils that Earth has never changed.

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False

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True

Question 3

Fossils are usually the soft tissues and hair of organisms.

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False

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True

Question 4

The only type of rock that fossils are found in is sedimentary rock.

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True

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False

Question 5

Petrified wood deposits found in Utah teach us that....

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Utah used to be a swampland.

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Indians used wood to cook.

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There was a big fire in the forest.

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Dinosaurs ate wood for dinner.

Question 6

What clues were found that helped us know about Lake Bonneville.

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Marine fossils and shore lines were discovered

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Utah Raptor fossils were discovered.

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It was written on cave walls.

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Petrified wood was found.

Question 7

What is a Trilobite?

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An extinct marine fossil arthropod.

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A dinosaur discovered in Utah.

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A Sabor tooth Tiger that was preserved in ice

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The trail in Utah where dinosaur footprints were found.

Question 8

These teeth suggest this animal was a __________.

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herbivore

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omnivore

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carnivore

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foodivore

Question 9

Which of these is NOT a step in the fossilization process?

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animal digs a cave into the rock

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animal buried in mud

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sediment build up

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bones left behind

Question 10

How did this deeply buried fossil become exposed at the Earth's surface?

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erosion uncovered it

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it crawled through the rock

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dynamite blasted the rock away

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rock never formed here

Question 11

What did this animal most likely eat?

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meat

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plants

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fruit

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insects

Question 12

What provides scientific evidence of past life?

Accepted Answer

fossils

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history books

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timelines

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stories

Question 13

Which of these types of fossils is a record of a living thing's activity?

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footprints

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bones

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shells

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teeth

Question 14

What do you call a scientist that studies fossils?

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Paleontologist

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Ecologist

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Zoologist

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Fossilologist

Question 15

True or False. All fossils come from dinosaurs.

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FALSE

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TRUE

Question 16

Fossils are the remains of _____________.

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plants and animals

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shells

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dinosaurs

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extinct animals

Question 17

Which of the following is NOT an example of a fossil?

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a seashell found on the beach

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a petrified dinosaur bone

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a footprint captured in rock

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an insect trapped in amber

Question 18

What are the remains, imprints, or traces of once-living organisms?

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fossils

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index fossils

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mold

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cast

Question 19

Which animal part would MOST LIKELY form a fossil?

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bone

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fur

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lung

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muscle

Question 20

Fossils of fish are found under land where cows now live. What does this tell you?

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this land was once under the ocean

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the fish were dropped their by flying birds

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farmers fed the fish to the cows

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fish used to live on land

Question 21

What information can a fossilized plant give scientists?

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what environments were like long ago

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what color the plants were long ago

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what kind of animals existed long ago

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what dinosaurs looked like long ago

Question 22

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

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It used to be an ocean.

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It used to warmer.

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It used to be colder.

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It used to be a desert.

Question 23

Which is an example of a fossil?

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a footprint in a rock

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a seashell under water

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a leaf in a puddle

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a bone on top of the ground

Question 24

How could there be fossils of ocean animals in states that are hundreds of miles from the sea?

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Seawater must have covered those states at one time.

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Lots of the same animals live in those states too.

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Groundwater must have carried to fossils to those states.

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Animals carried the fossils to those states.

Question 25

In order for a fossil to form, which of the following events must happen FIRST?

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An animal dies.

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Slowly, minerals in the water replace the bone.

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Sediment covers the bone.

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The bone is no longer a bone, but a rock copy.

Question 26

Leaf prints can be fossils.

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true

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false

Question 27

What evidence shows that the Sahara Desert used to be an ocean?

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Whale fossils have been found there

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It is sandy

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It is hot

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It is in Africa

Question 28

What can scientists learn from fossilized teeth?

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what types of things the animal ate

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what color an animal was

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if the animal walked on 2 or 4 legs

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if the animal lived in groups or alone

Question 29

Which trait would tell a scientist that the fossil they found was from an animal that lived on land?

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legs

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fins

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a shell

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a tail

Question 30

Scientist's ideas about what dinosaurs looked like have changed over time.

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true

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false

Question 31

What is something that can NOT be learned by looking at fossil footprints?

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the animal's body covering

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if the animal walked on 2 or 4 feet

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the size of the animal

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if the animal had claws

Question 32

Most animals turn into fossils when they die.

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false

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true

Question 33

Fossils show us some animals that no longer exist. What is a word for these types of animals?

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extinct

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dead

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fossilized

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preserved

Question 34

Fossils are the ______________ remains of an organism.

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perserved

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decayed

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hardened

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rare

Question 35

Which modern organism is most like the prehistoric organism shown in the fossil?

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dragonfly

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bat

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bird

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fish

Question 36

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

Accepted Answer

I, II, III, and IV

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II only

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I and IV only

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I, II, and III

Question 37

The picture below is a fossil of a tooth that may be from a sea creature known as the megalodon.

The megalodon is probably related to the

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shark

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penguin

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seal

Question 38

Which would be an example of a fossil?

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Dinosaur Footprint

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Sedimentary Rock

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Oyster Pearl

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Rotting Log

Question 39

Which is NOT a way an organism could become a fossil?

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It can be left out in the sun to decompose.

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It can be frozen in ice.

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It can be quickly buried in sediment after death.

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It can be trapped in the resin of a tree.

Question 40

Where can the oldest layer be found?

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The bottom layer

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The top layer

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The middle layer

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They are all the same age

Question 41

Rocks, sand, mud, and other soils are called

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sediments

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amber

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mold/case

Question 42

Which statement below is false?

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Old coins can become fossils

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Footprints can become fossils

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Dinosaurs can become fossils

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Fish can become fossils

Question 43

Some organisms may be preserved in materials other than rocks. An animal's remains might also be found in

Accepted Answer

all of these

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ice

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tar

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amber

Question 44

A fish that died a year ago can't be a fossil today. This is because...

Accepted Answer

it takes a long time for fossils to form

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other animals will eat the fish

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fish can't become fossils

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fish bones rot and decompose.

Question 45

Most fossils are covered by sediment. What is sediment made of?

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rocks, sand mud, other soils

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chemicals

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water that stinks

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cement

Question 46

Most dead animals don't become fossils because

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all of the above

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their remains must be properly preserved for a long time

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they may be eaten

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they break down

Question 47

The process that turns living things, like bones, into rocks is called _____.

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petrification

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rock and roll

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dinosaurification

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fossilification

Question 48

Look at the fossilized piece of a plant below.

To which type of plant is this fossilized organism most likely related?

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a tree

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a vine

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a flower

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a fern

Question 49

A rock layer contains petrified forest trees on the bottom layer. On the top layer we find ocean fish. What can we infer from this information given?

Accepted Answer

The area was once a forest, but is now an ocean

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The bottom layer is the oldest

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The ocean fish were there for a long time

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People must have brought fish in the forest

Question 50

In a sequence of rock layers, the oldest layer of rock is _______________ and the youngest layer of rock is ___________________ .

Accepted Answer

at the bottom; at the top

Answer

at the top; at the bottom

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