4th Grade Fossil Review

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

• True

• False

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We learn from fossils that Earth has never changed.

• True

• False

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Fossils are usually the soft tissues and hair of organisms.

• True

• False

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

• True

• False

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

• Indians used wood to cook.

• Utah used to be a swampland.

• There was a big fire in the forest.

• Dinosaurs ate wood for dinner.

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

• Marine fossils and shore lines were discovered

• Utah Raptor fossils were discovered.

• It was written on cave walls.

• Petrified wood was found.

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What is a Trilobite?

• A dinosaur discovered in Utah.

• A Sabor tooth Tiger that was preserved in ice

• An extinct marine fossil arthropod.

• The trail in Utah where dinosaur footprints were found.

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These teeth suggest this animal was a __________.

• herbivore

• omnivore

• carnivore

• foodivore

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

• animal buried in mud

• sediment build up

• bones left behind

• animal digs a cave into the rock

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

• it crawled through the rock

• erosion uncovered it

• dynamite blasted the rock away

• rock never formed here

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