Animals Through Time review

Scientists found a whale fossil in the middle of the desert because…

• whales live in the desert habitat.

• whales used to live in the desert habitat.

• there used to be a lake in the middle of the desert habitat.

• the desert habitat used to be an ocean.

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How do scientists know what dinosaurs looked like?

• They compare dinosaur fossils to animals alive today.

• Scientists were alive when dinosaurs were.

• Scientists use pictures from the internet.

• They read dinosaur books.

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How can you tell if someone was walking or running just by looking at their footprints?

• The footprints will be close together for walking and far apart for running.

• The footprints will be far away for walking and close together for running.

• Footprints don’t change if someone is walking or running.

• Footprints are bigger when someone is running and smaller when walking.

Kayla went swimming so she could see sharks and sea turtles. When she started swimming, she saw many tree trunks on the ocean floor. What kind of habitat do you think was in this location a long time ago?

• Forest

• Grassland

• Ocean

• Desert

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A polar habitat today was always a polar habitat in the past.

• TRUE

• FALSE

• Not sure

• Maybe

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We can learn about extinct animals by studying their fossils and comparing them to animals living today.

• TRUE

• FALSE

• Not sure

• Maybe

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When habitats change, the kinds of animals and plants that live there change, too.

• TRUE

• FALSE

• Not sure

• Maybe

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How could you tell what the habitat used to be where you live?

• Ask someone old.

• Dig a deep hole, look for fossils, and see what animal and plant fossils you find.

• Look it up in a book.

• Ask Ms. Magro

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The natural home environment that an animal or plant lives in is called a .....

• experiment

• fossil

• habitat

A group of animals that no longer live on earth are said to be ___________

• fossil

• natural

• alive

• extinct

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