Rocks Fossils and Fossil Fuels

How are Sedimentary Rocks formed?

• Cooling and Hardening
• Heat and Pressure
• Compacting and Cementing
• Melting

Where can the oldest layer be found?

• The top layer
• The middle layer
• They are all the same age
• The bottom layer

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In what kind of rock can fossils be found?

• Sedimentary Rocks
• Igneous Rocks
• Metamorphic Rocks
• Granite

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What are the 3 main fossil fuels?

• Coal, Oil, and Gasoline
• Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas
• Electricity, Gasoline, Petroleum
• Coal, Oil, Non-renewable Resources

One of the nonmineral rocks is ____________.

• granite

• coal

• limestone

What makes metamorphic rocks?

• Ocean Currents

• Volcanic Activity

• Heat and Pressure

Sedimentary rocks form when broken bits of other rock are deposited and then -

• buried and squeezed and cemented together
• melted by the heat of the Earth's core
• completely dissolved in the salt water of the ocean 
• used by humans as a natural resource

Fossils give us evidence about which of the following?

• plants and animals that lived long ago
• how weathering and erosion break down rocks
• the other planets in our solar system
• the transfer of energy from one form  to another

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A scientist is seeking rocks that formed at the mouth of a river. The fossils of which of the following would be the best evidence that rocks were formed under these conditions?

• freshwater fish

• large animals

• flying insects

• tropical bats

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Finding fossils in an area can help us learn what about that location?

• Which places in the region receive the most sunlight
• The effect of the climate on the formation of the soil
• How modern plants and animals interact there
• The kinds of organisms that lived there long ago

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