Unit 8 Test - Fossil

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
15 mins • 5 pts
What if tropical plant fossils were found in Antarctica? What would scientists infer about the way the environment may have looked millions of years ago?
It has always been very cold in Antarctica.
Animals would carry the plants on their backs to Antarctica.
The environment used to be a tropical environment.
The ice in Antarctica catches plant leaves.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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The fossil below was found in an area that is now a desert area. What may the environment have looked like in the past?
A rain forest
A beach
An ocean
A desert
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Cacti fossils have been found on top of a mountain nowhere near where cacti are found today. This provides evidence that the mountain once looked much different. What kind of environment was most likely where the mountain is now?
An ocean
A lake
Next to a waterfall
A desert
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Dinosaur Valley State Park is an area of Texas that is famous for dinosaur footprints and fossils. What do these clues tell scientists?
Dinosaurs once lived in Texas.
A scientist made the footprints.
The dinosaur had many predators.
The dinosaur did not have enough food.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Scientists that study fossils to learn about the past are called-
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Scientists found evidence showing coral fossils in a layer of Earth but then found a lizard fossil in the layer above that. What does finding different types of fossils on top of each other tell scientists?
The environment in an area has always been the same.
Coral and fossils lived during the same time.
The environment in that area changed over time.
This is not possible.
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MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
15 mins • 5 pts
Fossils are evidence of past living organisms that lived in the area where they are found. The fossil below is a shark tooth that was found in an area that is now a lush rain forest. What was that environment like in the past? What do you think the organism used to eat?
This organism lived in an ocean environment.
This organism lived in a desert environment.
The organism ate plants.
The organism ate meat.
This organism lived in an environment with a lot of plants.
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