Quiz on Fossils

What are fossils?

• Living organisms found in the ocean

• Preserved remains of organisms that existed on Earth

• Rocks that form in volcanoes

• New species of plants

What do fossils help scientists understand?

• The future of the environment

• The weather patterns of today

• Structures and functions of extinct organisms

• The color of the sky

What do structures on a fossil indicate?

• The color of the organism

• The size of the organism

• How the environment was like when the organism was alive

• The speed of the organism

What can the presence of different fossils in new rock layers indicate?

• The rocks are very old

• Environmental change over time

• The rocks are made of gold

• The rocks are from another planet

What helps organisms survive in specific environments according to fossils?

• Their color

• Their structures

• Their speed

• Their diet

Where have ammonites been found besides Texas?

• In marine sedimentary rock all over the world

• Only in Texas

• Only in deserts

• Only in forests

What kind of exoskeleton did trilobites have?

• Hard exoskeleton

• Soft exoskeleton

• No exoskeleton

• Flexible exoskeleton

In what type of rock have trilobites been found?

• Limestone shale

• Sandstone

• Granite

• Basalt

Fossils form when dead organisms are:

• completely decomposed

• rapidly buried under sediments

• eaten by scavengers

• reincarnated

What can the presence of marine fossils in a desert indicate?

• The fossils are not real

• The desert is moving towards the ocean

• The fossils were transported by wind

• The desert was once underwater