Fossils

1.Scientists found groups of fossil footprints. What could this discovery show?

• These animals might have lived in the ocean.

• These animals might have traveled in groups.

• These animals might have lived alone.

• These animals probably had large teeth.

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2. 2. Scientists found this fossil shell in a desert. What did this tell them about the Earth's history?

• This animal used to live in the desert.

• This animal used to have legs.

• Water used to be where the desert is now.

• Mountains used to be where the desert is now.

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3. 3. Which animal is extinct?

• (Image of a snake)

• (Image of an eagle)

• (Image of a dinosaur)

• (Image of a panda)

4. 4. What is a paleontologist?

• kind of tree sap

• tool used to dig for fossils

• animal that only eats plants

• scientist who studies fossils

5. 5. Which is a plant fossil?

• [Image of a fish fossil]

• [Image of a tooth fossil]

• [Image of a leaf fossil]

• [Image of a rock]

6. 6. Which kind of food do you think this animal mostly ate?

• plants

• rocks

• insects

• meat

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7. 7. Over millions of years, layers of sediment cover a fossil. What is sediment?

• scientist who studies fossils to learn about the past

• hard parts of an animal, like claws

• and teeth parts of an animal, like skin and hair

• different kinds of soil and rock, like sand and clay

8. 8. When a living thing dies, it DECOMPOSES and rots away. What does DECOMPOSE mean?

• to grow bigger

• to break down

• to survive

• to study closely

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9. 9. When a fossil forms, which event happens LAST?

• The soft parts rot away and the hard parts remain.

• Minerals replace the hard parts and turn them into rock.

• Heavy layers of sediment begin to pile on, creating pressure.

• A living thing dies and gets buried under sediment.

10. 10. What could scientists learn from studying an animal’s fossilized droppings?

• what kind of food it ate

• what color it was

• how well it could see

• how well it could hear

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