Preserved parts or traces of animals and plants that lived in the past are called

Science Chapter 6 Review

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deposition
erosion
fossils
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Erosion is one of the processes involved in the formation of sedimentary rock. Which of these best describes the process of erosion?
Rocks are broken into smaller pieces that remain in the same location.
Pieces of rock or soil are carried from one place to another.
Pressure compacts layers of sediment and turns them into rock.
Sediment grains fall to the bottom of a lake to form sedimentary layers.
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How are fossils created?
Dead organisms are quickly buried for millions of years.
Traces of organisms get turned into stone.
Animals get trapped.
All of the above
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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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
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Which of the following is NOT something you could learn from a fossil?
What the animal ate
The size of the animal
Where the animal lived
The color of the animal
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Which of the following fossil discoveries best demonstrates a change in the Earth's surface?
Scientists discover a large number of footprints of different sizes
Scientists discover fossils of underwater organisms in an area of dry land.
Scientists discover fossils of straight teeth buried below fossils of curved teeth.
Scientists find an area that contains a variety of plant fossils but no animal fossils.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Scientists found an index fossil in layer Z that was about 400 million years old. They determined that in that area, a new layer of earth was deposited every 50 million years. If a fossil was found in layer W, how old was the fossil?
less than a million years old
about 300 million years old
about 100 million years old
over 400 million years old
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