Fossil Types and Fossil Formation

Below the ice in the arctic there are rocks with fossils. Some fossils found there are of plants that only grow in warm places. Finding this fossil in the arctic shows evidence to support which statement below?

• The rock layer is younger than the ice.

• Some plants can easily grow in rocks.

• The area was once warmer.

• Rock is always covered with ice.

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An index fossil is...

• a fossil categorization system that lists fossils alphabetically

• a type of fossil formation that involves volcanic activity

• a fossil that lived billions rather than millions of year ago

• a widely distributed fossil, of narrow range in time, regarded as characteristic of a given geological formation

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What are the three common types of fossils?

• Mold, cast, and trace

• liquid, cast and trace

• solid, mold and cast

• gas, cast and mold

A person that studies the forms of life existing in prehistoric times by investigating the fossils of plants, animals, and other organisms is known as a

• Investigator

• Paleontologist

• Researcher

• Pathologist

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___________ ___________ show evidence of the activity of ancient organisms, such as tracks or nests.

• dead fossils

• Mold fossils

• Cast fossils

• Trace fossils

What is a fossil mold?

• Yesterdays food

• Nonrenewable resources

• An impression of an ancient organism.

• Renewable resources

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Fossils are found mostly in which type of rock?

• Sedimentary

• Amber

• Solid

• Pewter

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In layers of rock and their fossils, which layer contains the oldest fossils?__

• bottom of the sea.

• The ones on the bottom

• desert

• plant

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A fossil that is formed by sediments filling up a mold is a(n)

• Cast fossil

• Mold fossil

• Trace fossil

• Amber

An animal dies and is buried under a mudslide. After its flesh decays, special conditions allow the bones to be replaced by minerals forming a copy of the bone that was once there. This type of fossil is a(n

• Old fossil

• Cast fossil

• Fossil fuel

• Mold fossil