Fossils

What can fossils tell us about past animals and life?

• It cannot be replaced easily

• The imprint or remains of plants and animals that lived long ago

• An impression of an ancient organism

• Info about the past environment, where animals came from, and what they looked like

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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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What are the three common types of fossils?

• Mold, cast, and trace

• liquid, cast and trace

• solid, mold and cast

• gas, cast and mold

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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Coal, oil and natural gas are ________ _______. We will eventually run out of these

• Fossil fuels

• Temporary resources

• Nonrenewable resources

• Renewable resource

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

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Millions of years ago, the remains of dead plants and animals were buried by sediments. Through the action of time and pressure over millions of years, these remains changed form. We now call these changed remains

• Fossil fuels

• Natural gas

• Renewable resource

• Nonrenewable resources

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