Fossils

Fossils help us learn about....

• What animals were like long ago

• How the earth's surface has changed

• what the environment was like

• All of these

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Fossils give clues about the past.

• True

• False

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True or False. All fossils come from dinosaurs.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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A family was hiking on a mountain and found several fossils, including a shark tooth and a clam shell.  How has the area changed?

• It used to warmer.

• It used to be colder.

• It used to be an ocean.

• It used to be a desert.

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Which animal part would MOST LIKELY form a fossil?

• fur

• lung

• bone

• muscle

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Most fossils are covered by sediment. What is sediment made of?

• rocks, sand mud, other soils

• chemicals

• water that stinks

• cement

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Paleontologists look at the ______ of an animal to determine it's eating habits.

• arms

• bones

• teeth

• eyes

The remains or traces of an organism that lived long ago is a _____________.

• fossil

• egg

• extinct

• endangered

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What do some fossils and modern-day organisms have in common? Choose all correct answers.

• They are the same age

• They may be related

• They may have similar body structures

• They all come from rock layers

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Which statement is true about fossils?

• Fossils can tell us what animals looked like millions of years ago

• Fossils are never organisms that lived in the sea

• Fossils found today are always terrestrial fossils

• Fossils can tell us how animals become extinct

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